Join the New York State Office of Mental Health and the Dormitory Authority of New York State for the Grand Opening of the $350 Million Bronx Behavioral Health Campus. The new 436,310-square-foot facility features modern amenities for the 156-bed Bronx Psychiatric Center, the 86-bed New York City Children’s Center- Bronx Campus, and an expanded 188-bed residential village providing transitional and supported housing to adults with behavioral health issues.

WHEN: Tuesday, January 19, 2016
             9:00 a.m. Media Tour of New Campus
             10:00 a.m. Grand Opening Ceremony

WHERE: Bronx Behavioral Health Campus, Adult Building, 1500 Waters Place, Bronx, New York, 10461

WHAT: Agency leadership and individuals involved with the design and construction of the new campus will lead a media tour beginning at 9:00 a.m. The tour will be followed at 10:00 a.m. by a Grand Opening Ceremony and Ribbon Cutting, also open to the press.

The new campus replaces the current Bronx Psychiatric Center, which opened in 1963, and Bronx Campus of the New York City Children’s Center, which opened in 1969 as Bronx Children’s Hospital. It offers a modern mental health treatment environment designed to provide services in a respectful manner within a safe, secure, and inspirational setting. The inpatient buildings feature secure indoor and outdoor recreation areas, cutting-edge electronic monitoring technologies, motivating educational settings, and comfortable living quarters. All treatment areas within the inpatient buildings were specifically designed to put patients at ease and provide a safe working environment for OMH employees.

Flickr Album of Bronx Behavioral Health Campus, Creative Commons Attribution, available here: https://www.flickr.com/gp/nysomh/8jX5LH.

Media Access Note: To protect the confidentiality of the individuals we serve, media access will be limited to the unoccupied new buildings on the Bronx Behavioral Health Campus only. No filming, photography, or presence of media on any other portion of the Bronx Behavioral Health Campus will be permitted.