{"id":198141,"date":"2026-05-20T19:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/198141\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T19:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:29:11","slug":"penn-state-health-forms-new-division-combining-psychiatry-and-behavioral-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/198141\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn State Health forms new division combining psychiatry and behavioral health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/play-icon.png\"\/> Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Penn State Health (PSH) announced on May 18 the creation of a new division, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpbj.com\/tag\/psychiatry-and-behavioral-health\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag \" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" title=\"Posts tagged with Psychiatry and Behavioral Health\" target=\"_blank\">Psychiatry and Behavioral Health<\/a>, which combines the two services under a single umbrella. With this transition, PSH seeks to expand access to these services across Pennsylvania.\n<\/p>\n<p>The move includes integrating inpatient service locations. Inpatient services that were previously provided at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpbj.com\/tag\/pennsylvania-psychiatric-institute\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag \" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" title=\"Posts tagged with Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute<\/a> (PPI) will relocate to Holy Spirit Medical Center in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpbj.com\/tag\/camp-hill\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag \" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" title=\"Posts tagged with Camp Hill\" target=\"_blank\">Camp Hill<\/a>. Fifty-three beds will open July 13 on the hospital\u2019s third and fourth floors, adding to its existing 31-bed behavioral health unit and outpatient program. Holy Spirit Medical Center will continue to operate as a full-service community hospital and trauma center.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy unifying these services and combining the strengths of our professionals, we are enhancing patient care, efficiency, collaboration and innovation,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpbj.com\/tag\/dr-erika-saunders\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag \" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" title=\"Posts tagged with Dr. Erika Saunders\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Erika Saunders<\/a>, chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpbj.com\/tag\/penn-state-health\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag \" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" title=\"Posts tagged with Penn State Health\" target=\"_blank\">Penn State Health<\/a>, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The unified model at Holy Spirit will offer a full interdisciplinary care team for adults, adolescents and children with behavioral health needs and complex medical conditions. The model includes specialized programming and advanced therapies like a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpbj.com\/tag\/transcranial-magnetic-stimulation\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag \" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" title=\"Posts tagged with transcranial magnetic stimulation\" target=\"_blank\">transcranial magnetic stimulation<\/a> (TMS) program for conditions including depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and smoking cessation.\n<\/p>\n<p>Outpatient services will continue in Harrisburg, with select programs moving to newly renovated spaces. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpbj.com\/tag\/third-street-clinic\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag \" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" title=\"Posts tagged with Third Street Clinic\" target=\"_blank\">Third Street Clinic<\/a> will relocate to 1521 N. 6th Street beginning Aug. 10. Advancement in Recovery (AIR) Program will relocate to 100 N. Cameron Street beginning Sept. 8. Division Street Clinic will remain at its current location.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is to ensure that these vital services remain available and accessible to patients throughout the region,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpbj.com\/tag\/leslyn-williamson\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag \" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" title=\"Posts tagged with Leslyn Williamson\" target=\"_blank\">Leslyn Williamson<\/a>, regional president of Holy Spirit and Hampden medical centers, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Penn State Health (PSH) announced on May 18 the creation of a new division,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[15767,87959,87960,62383,87961,87962,128,130,129,87963,87964],"class_list":["post-198141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-camp-hill","tag-dr-erika-saunders","tag-leslyn-williamson","tag-penn-state-health","tag-pennsylvania-psychiatric-institute","tag-psychiatry-and-behavioral-health","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-third-street-clinic","tag-transcranial-magnetic-stimulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}