Gateways Hospital and Mental Health Center recently broke ground on a new two-story, 37-bed, adolescent inpatient psychiatric center on their community mental health center campus in Los Angeles, California. HMC was proud to join Los Angeles city and county leaders, elected officials, and Gateways leaders to celebrate this construction milestone.

Gateways Hospital and Mental Health Center has served the greater Los Angeles area with accessible mental health services for more than 70 years and is one of the county’s largest providers of acute adolescent mental health services. The new, 28,330 SF center will serve and support adolescents with serious emotional or behavioral issues experiencing a psychiatric emergency. The project is supported by a  $19.2 million California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program (BHCIP) grant aimed at expanding access to community-based treatment in Los Angeles County. HMC has worked closely with HCAI and CDPH to expedite this important project and make it successful as it is one of the first projects to break ground under Round 4 BHCIP funding.

Gateways meets children where they are and provides outpatient mental health services across the county and in partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District. They implement trauma-informed care and adverse childhood experience screenings to ensure treatment plans meet client needs. With this new behavioral health building, Gateways can reach even more students and provide them with comprehensive services to meet their mental health goals.

Construction will be completed in December 2026.