Our kids are in crisis: Expanded HMH/Carrier Clinic behavioral health facility will address growing need — care for children as young as 7

Here’s where we are on the behavioral crisis in New Jersey — and around the country. Hackensack Meridian Health, through the Carrier Clinic, was thrilled to hold a groundbreaking Friday for a 43,000-square-foot, 52-bed facility in Belle Mead that HMH officials hope will be open in 2025.

HMH CEO Bob Garrett calls the $40 million effort an expansion and modernization of the existing pediatric unit, one that will bring desperately needed beds to care for a growing class of patients who struggle to find a place for treatment — kids ages 7-11. That’s right, grade schoolers as young as first grade are in need of care — whether it be a few days for stabilization after an incident or weeks/months […].

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