{"id":410,"date":"2026-05-21T22:39:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T22:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=410"},"modified":"2026-05-21T22:39:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T22:39:56","slug":"alta-view-behavioral-health-center-to-boost-care-for-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=410","title":{"rendered":"Alta View behavioral health center to boost care for mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>KEY POINTS<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>A new behavioral health center at Intermountain Alta View Hospital will take adult walk-in patients.<\/li>\n<li>The maternal mental health unit addresses mental health issues related to pregnancy, including postpartum depression.<\/li>\n<li>Utah NAMI estimated 1 in 5 Utahns has some type of mental health challenge at some point.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Intermountain Health is opening a 56-bed behavioral health center at its Alta View Hospital in Sandy \u2014 a move the health system\u2019s officials laud as significantly bolstering mental healthcare for Salt Lake County residents.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=408\">One last \u2018Late Show\u2019 for Stephen Colbert<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The center will begin serving patients in June, but community leaders, health officials, media and patients got a preview of the facility Thursday. The 84,000 square-foot facility will feature walk-in crisis treatment and in-patient treatment for adults. Walk-in care for pediatric mental health crises is available at Intermountain Primary Children\u2019s Hospital on the Taylorsville campus.<\/p>\n<p>Hospital president Scott Robertson said that, according to state data, \u201croughly 30% of Utahns live with a mental health illness. \u201dThat\u2019s more than 1 in 4.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all probably know somebody who struggled in one way or another in their life. What an opportunity we have to take care of our friends and neighbors here at Alta View.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NAMI Utah data suggests 1 in 5 Utah adults have had a mental health crisis. And in 2023, the 988 crisis line took nearly 35,000 calls.<\/p>\n<p>The center also has beds for people who need medical substance detox. But one of its most unique features is a small unit that will provide care for women who are having a mental health crisis during pregnancy or within a year after a pregnancy.<\/p>\n<h3>Maternal mental healthcare<\/h3>\n<p>The maternal mental health unit is a six-bed inpatient program that was created with mother-baby bonding in mind. While babies won\u2019t stay overnight in the unit, they are welcome to visit and bond with their mother as she receives care, according to Janet Hintze, the chief nursing officer for Intermountain Alta View Hospital. She said the unit will meet mothers \u201cwhere they are, during some of the most vulnerable moments of their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While maternal mental healthcare is available in other programs, the new unit has features unique in Utah and is one of very few across the nation, Hintze said.<\/p>\n<p>The maternal mental health unit is separate from the other inpatient behavioral health center units and will directly address the \u201cemotional, psychological and physiological needs associated with pregnancy and early parenthood,\u201d hospital officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Among the psychological challenges that may occur during and immediately following pregnancy are postpartum depression, anxiety, postpartum psychosis, trauma-related disorders and conditions related to substance use.<\/p>\n<p>During the program, hospital officials said that any of those can not only hurt mom\u2019s health, but can impact bonding with the baby and family stability in general.<\/p>\n<p>The Utah Department of Health and Human Services has reported that depression and anxiety are the most common childbirth complications. It\u2019s estimated that in Utah, 1 in 8 have postpartum depression and 1 in 3 have anxiety, depression or postpartum depression.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=406\">Trump, EPA\u2019s Lee Zeldin announce relaxation of refrigerant rules set by Biden administration<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Walking through the unit on a tour, visitors passed a sign that read: \u201cMaternal mental health is essential healthcare.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>In times of crisis<\/h3>\n<p>Robertson said the project took almost five years from conception to being ready to open and represents a \u201cdream come true\u201d to dozens of people who were involved, including those not only on the medical services side, but also contractors, designers, workers in several departments for Sandy City and others. <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Related<\/div>\n<div>Moms.gov created to address high maternal mortality in U.S.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He noted that people in mental health crisis have often been seen in emergency departments, and they may end up waiting hours or even days to get an inpatient bed. Now adults in crisis can enter the behavioral health center directly and expect to receive targeted help for their crisis.<\/p>\n<p>As Ralph Jean-Mary, president of both Intermountain Salt Lake Central Market and of the Intermountain Medical Center, said, the center is entirely dedicated to helping community members with mental health, which he called \u201ca big deal.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ben Holt, senior medical director for behavioral health at Intermountain for both Utah and Nevada, said the need for behavioral healthcare is not abstract. It doesn\u2019t happen somewhere to someone else in some other family. It touches everyone.<\/p>\n<p>He said his patients have taught him that \u201cwe\u2019re all about two bad days away from needing help with our mental health. Most people who end up in crisis didn\u2019t expect it. It wasn\u2019t scheduled as an upcoming event on their calendar, But when a crisis happened, what they needed most is a safe place. They don\u2019t need shame or judgment. They need safety, expertise, compassion and community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those, Holt said, are what the center will provide.<\/p>\n<p>The final speaker, Liz Owens, CEO of YWCA Utah, said families are stretched thin and anxiety, loneliness, domestic violence, trauma, instability, grief, fear and homelessness all weigh people down. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we know deeply is this: Mental health is not separate from the rest of our lives. There are times we are healthier than others, but we all experience moments of struggle, healing, recovery and hopefully wellness. When support systems don\u2019t exist to help people on their journey back to health, the consequences ripple outward across families and communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The center, Jean-Mary said, nearly doubles the number of behavioral health beds in Salt Lake County. He noted that Intermountain has two behavioral health access centers in the valley: the new facility and one at LDS Hospital. <\/p>\n<p>Guests for the open house were each given a small \u201cbehavioral health dictionary\u201d to introduce what Hintze called \u201csome of the language that we want to incorporate when we talk about behavioral health services.\u201d It is a respectful, \u201cpatient-forward\u201d way to talk about addiction and suicide, for example, she said.<\/p>\n<p>The new behavioral health center, which has the theme \u201cTogether We Thrive,\u201d is located at 9660 S. 1300 East in Sandy.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=404\">President Chris Mallett: Why a Weber State Wildcat is returning to his purple roots<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is postpartum depression? How many Utahns have a mental health challenge? 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