Little Rock, AR – (JonesboroRightNow.com) – Nov. 14, 2024 – Methodist Family Health recently purchased the facility in which the Arkansas Continued Care Hospital in Jonesboro (ACCHJ) is currently located.
ACCHJ will be discontinuing operations at 3024 Red Wolf Blvd.
Methodist Family Health plans to remodel the hospital into an acute, 70-bed psychiatric facility for children under the age of 18.
“The leadership of Methodist Family Health and Arkansas Continued Care Hospital share the same vision in bringing an acute child and adolescent psychiatric hospital into the northeast Arkansas area,” said Andy Altom, president and CEO of Methodist Family Health. “We are excited to be expanding services into northeast Arkansas and look forward to better serving the current psychiatric programs in the area.”
The hospital will undergo some remodeling to add safety features for psychiatric acute patients under the age of 18. Leadership of Methodist Family Health and Arkansas Continued Care are working together to create a timeline of events, which will be shared when available.
Methodist Family Health was founded in 1899 as the Arkansas Methodist Orphanage. As the orphanage system moved into the foster care system, Methodist Family Health moved with it, establishing group homes for orphans and foster children.
When the need arose for short-term, inpatient care for children who are a danger to themselves, someone else or both, Methodist Family Health founded the Methodist Behavioral Hospital in Maumelle, the state’s only nonprofit behavioral health hospital for children.
Today, this continuum of care contains both inpatient and outpatient care to fit the needs of Arkansas children and their families who need psychiatric, behavioral, emotional and spiritual treatment, therapy and support.
