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Speaker 1: The new state of the art Tufts Medicine Behavioral Health

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Speaker 1: Hospital in Malden will help address the drastic need for

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Speaker 1: impatient care. Doctor Brent Forrester is director of Behavioral Health

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Speaker 1: for Tuft's Medicine.

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Speaker 2: I think it's going to be a place where people

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Speaker 2: go for expert care, but also they're going to feel

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Speaker 2: like they're in an environment that's conducive to healing and

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Speaker 2: well being.

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Speaker 1: With Melrose Wakefield and Laura's Memorial closing down their psychiatric

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Speaker 1: beds in March, the new one hundred and forty four

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Speaker 1: impatient beds in Malden will not only replace those lost,

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Speaker 1: but will surpasses them. The different units are broken down

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Speaker 1: by psychiatric specialty, treating children, adolescents, adults, and.

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Speaker 2: Older adults with mood disorders, addiction, trauma, other psychiatric conditions,

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Speaker 2: as well as Alzheimer's disease in related dimensions, the behavioral

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Speaker 2: symptoms that often really create tremendous burnout in families.

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Speaker 1: Sherry Small, WBC Boston's news radio