by Mike Sherry, Heartland Health Monitor
The University of Kansas Hospital said Friday that it is partnering with KVC Health Systems to provide adult psychiatric care in Wyandotte County.
Under the arrangement, KVC Prairie Ridge Hospital’s 12 adult psychiatric beds in Kansas City, Kan., will become part of KU Hospital. It will be called The University of Kansas Hospital Adult Services at KVC Prairie Ridge, according to a news release.
Based in Olathe, KVC Kansas is a nonprofit provider of behavioral health care and child welfare services, including foster care and adoption.
KVC will continue to provide child and adolescent psychiatric treatment separate from the partnership.
The partnership does not change the operations of KU’s adult psychiatric inpatient unit on the hospital’s main campus, the release said.
KVC hospitals have been a teaching site for the psychiatry department of the KU Medical Center for 10 years.
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