Creating Access. Rebuilding Lives.

A community-based behavioral health hospital is a specialized environment. Expert clinical teams — psychiatrists, nurses, therapists and counselors — work side by side in secure, therapeutic settings designed for healing.

Care is built around the whole person: medication management, evidence-based therapies and holistic support that treat the crisis and the causes beneath it. It's the level of care a Texan in crisis can't get in an emergency room — and exactly what these hospitals exist to provide.

Community-based behavioral health hospitals care for the whole community — children, adolescents, adults and seniors, insured and uninsured, Medicare and Medicaid alike.

These hospitals serve a large share of Texas's Medicaid patients, including many of the children and families who have the fewest options. Being there for Medicaid Texans isn't incidental to what the community-based setting does. It's core to it. When a family has nowhere else to turn, these hospitals are there.