Two Rivers Psychiatric Hospital is a psychiatric hospital

Psychiatric hospital

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 located in Kansas City

Kansas City, Missouri

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, Missouri

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The facility is operated as a private, for-profit, behavioral health

Behavioral health

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 hospital

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 and is owned by Universal Health Services

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, based out of King of Prussia

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, PA

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 and opened in October 1986.

Two Rivers Psychiatric Hospital has a broad range of in-patient, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient services comprising the following units or programs:

• The National Center for Trauma-Based Disorders
• Dual Diagnosis
  Dual diagnosis
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   and Addictions
• Spectrum Adult Services
• Renaissance Older Adult Program
• Child and Adolescent Program

The National Center for Trauma-Based Disorders has both trauma stabilization and trauma treatment programs as well as a program for those with trauma and co-occurring eating disorders and addictions.

Two Rivers Psychiatric Hospitals is one of two private, free-standing psychiatric hospitals in the Kansas City area, the other being the Research Psychiatric Center.