Endeavor Health expanding mental health services at new Palatine location

Endeavor Health will be moving into a new facility in Palatine offering comprehensive outpatient mental health care.

The new outpatient behavioral health center at 500 N. Hicks Road opens May 4 in a renovated two-story building just across the street from Mariano’s and the village’s police headquarters.

The nearly $10 million adaptive reuse project consolidates and relocates services currently offered at a building at Endeavor Health’s Northwest Community Hospital campus at 901 W. Kirchoff Road in Arlington Heights and significantly expands their scope, officials said.

The site will treat adolescents ages 12-17 and adults 18 and older, offering programs for mental health conditions, substance use disorders, anxiety and OCD.

The idea is to expand outpatient services and get patients treatment sooner to better manage their mental well-being.

“As we continue to look at where individuals need services, we're really trying to go upstream in our care delivery and help individuals earlier on in the process,” said Gina Sharp, president of Endeavor Health Linden Oaks Hospital in Naperville and system executive of Endeavor Health's behavioral health service line.

Endeavor Health will also be able to serve more people.

The facility's hospital-based day program will grow from 35 maximum to up to 50 patients daily, offering partial hospitalization — six hours a day, Monday through Friday — and intensive outpatient services at three hours a day.

Endeavor Health also plans to launch a Medicare outpatient program in the coming months.

Staffing will expand from 11 to up to 19 caregivers.

A notable new offering is a Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation program for patients with treatment-resistant depression — those for whom multiple medications have not worked. During TMS sessions, patients sit while targeted magnetic pulses stimulate specific areas of the brain.

“It’s been a very effective treatment for those suffering from depression,” she said.

The opening coincides with Mental Health Awareness Month in May.

Sharp said addressing mental illness earlier could reduce unnecessary emergency department visits and primary care appointments driven by anxiety or depression.

Those seeking care can reach Endeavor Health’s call-center line at (847) HEALING.