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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in the Baltimore area and Shepard Pratt is considered the go-to for inpatient stuff, as far as I've heard, and I believe they have pediatric units... Hopkins also absolutely has a peds inpatient psych unit because I used to work at Hopkins and it was the floor below where I worked.  (This was 6 years ago so theoretically it was eliminated, but I doubt it) [/quote]

We were thinking Hopkins as well given its overall excellent medical school. Does Hopkins have a facility to treat eating disorder and co-occurring symptoms for children or is it only a child psych unit? We were told that there was not a separate child ED program, but that the activities were more adult focused, which are not appropriate for 11-12 year olds. Any insight? Thanks.[/quote]

Hi- if you are still on this thread- so from what I recall from when I worked in the childrens center, they absolutely had an inpatient pediatric psych unit, it was part of the general childrens hospital and it was it's own floor/unit.  I remember seeing kids on the census as young as 4 or so, and through age 16 or 17.  I do not know if they had anything specific in terms of an ED program since I didn't work on that unit, but I do recall a few 12-14 year old patients on my unit who had severe ED, came in for a day or two of medical stabilization and then were transferred to the pediatric psych unit so I know that at least back in 2010 or so, they took those cases even in the absence of a proper program for it but that may not be what you are looking for.  If there is a specialized eating disorder unit in the regular psych unit then yes, there will be adults there so I agree 11 might be a little young for it.  GL and I hope you find the best program for her. [/quote]

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