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Valleywise Health will reopen 15 inpatient behavioral health beds at Maryvale Hospital this week.
The press release states that the beds will close in 2022 due to staffing issues plaguing the healthcare industry.
“We have been keen to reopen these beds to care for patients with challenges such as: Severe It’s a mental illness,” said Gene Cavallo, senior vice president of behavioral health. “This is another step in reopening beds affected by severe staffing shortages exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Valleywise Health is the largest provider of court-ordered inpatient behavioral health care in Arizona, with 412 licensed beds across three hospitals: Mesa, Maryvale, and Central Phoenix. Three of his wings at Maryvale Hospital have closed due to labor shortages. In response, Valleywise Health launched an aggressive recruiting campaign that awarded sign-on bonuses to psychiatric nurses, technicians, and other staff members.
Valleywise Health’s plan is to continue reopening closed wards at Maryvale Hospital over the next 12 years. up to 18 A few months.
“Thanks to our recruitment efforts and the hard work of many Valleywise Health staff, we are pleased to have enough caregivers to create more caregivers.” hospitalized patient mental health care capacity in our community,” Cavallo said.
Valleywise Health also trains new psychiatrists. Valleywise Health has a psychiatry residency program through the Creighton University Arizona Health Education Alliance that has graduated eight adult psychiatrists and four child psychiatrists.That’s exactly the case this year, Cavallo added.
