Raritan Bay Medical Center Now Offers Electroconvulsive Therapy as part of 30 Million Investment to Expand its Behavioral Health Services

Published:
July 19, 2023

What You Need To Know

  • Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) is now offered at Raritan Bay Medical Center as part of HMH's $30 million investment to expand Behavioral Health services.
  • ECT is already offered at Carrier Clinic and Jersey Shore University Medical Center administering more than 5,000 treatments annually.
As part of HMH's $30 million investment to expand Behavioral Health services, Electroconvulsive Therapy is now offered at Raritan Bay Medical Center. The Behavioral Health program at Raritan Bay is the first in the HMH network to receive the Carrier Behavioral Health designation. The Medical Center's behavioral health services include programs for adults, older adults, and those needing care for both mental health and substance use disorder diagnoses. The full $30 million expansion is expected to open in the fall of 2023. Carrier Clinic has been providing ECT for more than fifty years.  More than 4,000 ECT treatments are administered annually for both inpatient and outpatients. At Jersey Shore University Medical Center, more than 1,000 ECT treatments are performed each year. With this expansion, HMH's goal is to offer ECT to patients in Middlesex County.