Milwaukee County

Milwaukee Mental Health Emergency Center. 1545 N 12th St Milwaukee 414-966-3030

Granite Hills Hospital 1706 S 68th St. West Allis, WI 414-667-4800

Milwaukee County closed their Mental Health Complex in September of 2022. The idea was that Granite Hills, a for-profit hospital, would provide many of the services that the County used to provide. Although Granite Hills has 120 beds and opened in January of 2022, it has never been able to offer more than 1/3 to 1/2 of capacity.

Granite Hills did not want to provide emergency services, so a new Mental Health Emergency Center (MHEC) was built at 1525 N 12th St.

Additionally, the major health care systems like Aurora, Children's, Froedtert, and Ascension, partner with the county to provide services. But there is still a severe shortage of psychiatric beds in the Milwaukee area! Only a small fraction of the people who are brought to the Mental Health Emergency Center in crisis by police or concerned family members are sent to treatment at inpatient hospitals. Many community services are voluntary, but someone with serious mental illness (SMI) who is in severe psychosis is often unaware they need these services, a condition called anosognosia. Although mental health is supposed to be funded as much as any other health issue (called parity), we still have a long way to go!