“Since 2020 – the start of the pandemic – Children’s has seen a 50% increase in the number of children requiring hospitalization for mental health reasons and a 30% increase in emergency room visits for mental health needs.”

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Minnesota’s St. Paul Children’s Campus will soon close one of the eastern subway’s only pediatric intensive care units, even as the same hospital prepares to add a new 22-bed inpatient mental health unit for children aged 5 to 18.

Children’s Minnesota – which was established in the capital in 1924 – manages some 380 beds between the St. Paul and Minneapolis sites of its nonprofit hospitals. These hospitals and their state-wide network of clinics, specialty care, and rehabilitation sites form one of the largest stand-alone pediatric health systems in the country, and fundamental changes are underway as that system. is approaching the century.