View Behavioral Health Opens New 52-bed Colton Children’s Facility

VBHCC is a 24,000 square foot, one-story facility featuring four inpatient units, indoor and outdoor recreation areas, dining rooms, admitting suites, and staff areas. | Photo Credit (all): Courtesy of VBHCC

COLTON, Calif. — View Behavioral Health (VBH), a southern California-based behavioral health organization, recently cut the ribbon on the new View Behavioral Health Colton Children’s (VBHCC), a 52-bed inpatient Psychiatric Health Facility for children and adolescents. VBHCC is the largest facility of its kind in California’s Inland Empire region and will more than double the region’s inpatient psychiatric bed capacity for individuals under 18 as a statewide, multiyear shortage persists.  

“California’s inpatient psychiatric bed capacity for children and adolescents is severely limited and unevenly distributed, and we must do all that we can to increase access to behavioral health resources for these future generations,” said Jack Stephens, CEO of View Behavioral Health, at the ribbon-cutting ceremony. “This facility will expand the Inland Empire’s total inpatient psychiatric bed capacity for this population by more than 55% and help address the broader statewide shortage of beds.”  

According to the California Hospital Association, there were 7.6 inpatient psychiatric beds per 100,000 children/adolescents across California in 2017 (latest available data) and the minimum necessary number is 50 beds per 100,000 children/adolescents. Even further, CHA found that only 15 counties statewide have inpatient psychiatric beds for individuals under age 18 and 23 counties have none. 

VBHCC is a 24,000 square foot, one-story facility featuring four inpatient units, indoor and outdoor recreation areas, dining rooms, admitting suites, and staff areas. Unique in the industry, the facility features primarily single occupancy rooms and has been designed with colors, finishes, and other features that create a welcoming, healing, and supportive space for patients.   

Working collaboratively to expand behavioral health resources in the Inland Empire, VBH has established a medical staffing partnership at VBHCC with UC Riverside, School of Medicine at VBHCC. Through this partnership, UC Riverside’s medical staff and faculty, including physicians and advanced practice providers in psychiatry and internal medicine, will work alongside VBH employees to provide the patient care.  

VBHCC is the first facility to be completed as part of VBH’s new three-building behavioral health campus in the City of Colton. The campus will also include an adjacent 72-bed inpatient Psychiatric Health Facility for adults and an outpatient facility with programs for all age groups. VBH will pursue a combination of California Department of Healthcare Services (DHCS) Licensing, Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) Designation, and The Joint Commission accreditation for the campus. With a planned completion in 2027, this campus will greatly strengthen the behavioral health system in San Bernardino County. 

“We commend and welcome View Behavioral Health Colton Children’s and also the future expanded behavioral health campus,” said City of Colton Mayor Frank J. Navarro. “This partnership will turn previously vacant industrial buildings into much needed centers of care for children, adolescents, and adults in need of mental and behavioral health services.” 

With the completion of construction, the VBHCC team will now begin a comprehensive licensing and accreditation process through the State of California, San Bernardino Department of Behavioral Health, The Joint Commission, and other agencies that would allow VBH to begin admitting patients later this summer.  

VBH’s project team included Uprite Construction, Sign Imaging, Pineapple Furniture, and Uno Furniture, among others. 

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