{"id":32139,"date":"2025-11-12T17:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/32139\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:12:06","slug":"upmc-childrens-hospital-expands-behavioral-health-services-with-new-south-hills-walk-in-clinic-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/32139\/","title":{"rendered":"UPMC Children\u2019s Hospital expands behavioral health services with new South Hills walk-in clinic \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/organization\/upmc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UPMC<\/a> Children\u2019s Hospital of Pittsburgh is ramping up its children and adolescent mental health services, opening a second after-hours clinic in the South Hills with plans for more elsewhere in its footprint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The new walk-in clinic is on the first floor of UPMC Children\u2019s Hospital of Pittsburgh South, which is located off Interstate 79 in South Fayette. It joins the first pediatric behavioral health walk-in clinic that opened at the main hospital in Lawrenceville in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">UPMC Children\u2019s President Diane Hupp told the Business Times in an interview that the walk-in clinic\u2019s hours \u2014 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 4 p.m. Saturdays \u2014 are designed with parents\u2019 and children\u2019s schedules in mind. Therapists, psychologists and other mental health personnel are available at the clinic for walk-in appointments as well as for interventions and referrals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2025\/11\/10\/upmc-childrens-hospital-behavioral-health.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2025\/11\/10\/upmc-childrens-hospital-behavioral-health.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPMC Children\u2019s Hospital of Pittsburgh is ramping up its children and adolescent mental health services, opening a second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20279,20271,20277,47,20278,73,75,74,19197,20272,20275,20276,20273,20274,19199],"class_list":{"0":"post-32139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-adolescent","9":"tag-childrens-hospital","10":"tag-childrens-walk-in-clinic","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mental-health-services","13":"tag-pittsburgh","14":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","15":"tag-pittsburgh-news","16":"tag-upmc-childrens","17":"tag-upmc-hospital","18":"tag-upmc-kids","19":"tag-upmc-lawrenceville","20":"tag-upmc-pittsburgh","21":"tag-upmc-south-hills","22":"tag-walk-in-clinic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32139","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=32139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}