The Clinton Street entrance into New Hampshire Hospital will be closed for a time as part of continued expansion of the facility, which provides acute, in-patient psychiatric services. Other entrances are still open.

Th​​​​e E Unit at New Hampshire Hospital, which was previously designed for children, has been renovated to accommodate the adult population and reopened in April, bringing 12 more psychiatric beds and increasing capacity to 164 beds. Current renovations to the F Unit are expected to add six more beds online this month, while other work is expected to bring the hospital to full capacity of 185 later this year. 

Increasing the bed capacity is one component of Mission Zero, the Department’s plan to eliminate “ED Boarding,” in which people facing a behavioral health crisis seek care in medical emergency departments while waiting for care in another setting. The work to address ED Boarding is outlined in New Hampshire’s 10-Year Mental Health Plan.