Wellfound Behavioral Health Hospital

New hope for patients who need it most.

Wellfound Behavioral Health Hospital

Current restrictions in place at our locations

Hospital visitor restrictions:

Current restriction may include:
- One visitor per day per patient during visitor hours (5 a.m. to 5 p.m.)
- One visitor at a time for end-of-life
- One support person for laboring mothers
- Parents of a special-care infant
- Care partner who needs to learn how to care for a patient
- Designated driver for surgery patients
Children 12 and under are restricted from visiting
All approved visitors:
- Must use designated entrances
- Will be screened for COVID-19 symptoms
- Will be asked to complete hand hygiene upon entry
- Must wear a mask while inside the building
- Are encouraged to maintain physical distancing (at least six feet apart from others)

Clinic visitor restrictions:

For everyone's protection, we are restricting visitors from accompanying patients to an appointment. Accommodations will be made for minors and special circumstances.
We ask that you provide your own mask and wear it upon entering a Franciscan location. If you do not have a mask, we will provide one for you.
Please, do NOT come to your appointment if you have a fever, cough, shortness of breath, new loss of taste or smell, or have had close, in-person contact with someone who has tested positive for the COVID virus within the past 14 days. If symptoms are severe, call 911 or go directly to one of our COVID-19 Triage Centers, Urgent Cares or Emergency Services departments.

New hope for patients who need it most

One in five adults will experience a mental health issue every year—some of those serious enough to require inpatient care. But, with only two point eight beds per 100,000 residents in our community—compared to a national average of 26.1 beds—access to hospital beds dedicated to those with behavioral health needs has been sorely lacking in Pierce County.

For this reason, Virginia Mason Franciscan Health and MultiCare Health System came together to jointly build and operate an inpatient facility to address this unmet need in our communities: Wellfound Behavioral Health Hospital.

When fully up and running, the freestanding, two-story hospital will have 120 inpatient beds across six nursing units, with a mix of 24 private and 48 semi-private rooms. It will provide short-term voluntary and involuntary admissions for adults with a focus on general psychiatric care for individuals ages 18 and older with common psychiatric conditions such as:

Anxiety
Acute depression
Suicidal tendencies
Self-injury
Mania
Psychosis

Our professional clinicians will treat behavioral health as well as co-existing secondary medical or chemical dependency conditions.

Supported by the Coalition for South Sound, a strong community network of elected officials and community leaders led by Congressman Derek Kilmer, Brad Cheney and Bill Weyerhaeuser, Wellfound Behavioral Health Hospital is bringing new hope to members of our community who desperately need this level of care and support.