Bright Path Center
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About the Bright Path Center
A major advancement in the way our system provides health care, Bright Path Center is being built on best practices to treat behavioral health challenges. With separate spaces for children and adults, the center is specially designed to receive, stabilize, and refer individuals experiencing a behavioral health crisis related to mental health, drug and alcohol use, or intellectual disabilities.
It will be located on the grounds of, but separate from, Penn Medicine Doylestown Hospital, next to Lenape Valley Foundation’s existing location at 500 N. West Street, Doylestown. The center is a collaborative effort between Doylestown Health, Bucks County Department of Behavioral Health/Developmental Programs, Bucks County Drug & Alcohol Commission, and Lenape Valley Foundation.
Bright Path Center will offer compassionate care to individuals and families to de-escalate a critical situation and determine the best path forward to hope and healing.
Click here to read an article from 3/27/25 on the project in the Bucks County Courier Times >
FAQ
How many people will it be able to accommodate?
We expect to serve about 7,000 people each year.
When is the building expected to open?
Groundbreaking took place in the spring of 2024. The building will be complete, and services will begin in 2026.
How is this different from what is currently being done?
Today in Bucks County, individuals experiencing mental health or substance use crises often are taken to local emergency rooms. While hospitals do an excellent job of evaluating and caring for people experiencing medical crisis, the crowded, sometimes noisy and chaotic environment of a hospital emergency department can exacerbate the distress of a person experiencing a behavioral health issue.
The Bright Path Center is specifically designed with behavioral health best practices in mind, including a calming environment and separate spaces for children and adults, staffed by professionals who specialize in treating behavioral health issues.
In addition, the collaborative model means that the center will provide all the components of crisis services that are now spread across our system. The Bright Path Center will be equipped to handle acute care services mental health, drug and alcohol, intellectual disabilities, and more.
How will it work?
When individuals are brought to or voluntarily present to the center, treatment will start immediately. In comfortable rooms in a home-like atmosphere, they will be provided food, water, clean clothes or other needed items. Psychiatrists, counselors and other trained professionals will assess and determine the best next steps.
Individuals can remain at the center as they stabilize or can be referred to programs such as inpatient psychiatric facilities, The Lodge Crisis Residential, longer-term drug and alcohol treatment, or, in the future, to the Bucks County Forensic Diversion, Treatment and Rehabilitation Center, now under development.
What services will be provided?
Services provided through the new center will include:
· Robust 24/7 crisis telephone interventions.
· Mobile crisis services that can respond to calls in a timely manner.
· 23-hour stabilization units that embrace the Living Room Model
· Short-term crisis residential treatment facilities.
· Withdrawal management services.
· Secure treatment spaces that deliver quality care in a safe environment to foster wellness and recovery.
What are the additional features of the building?
· 22,000 square feet
· Sallyport entrance for safe, secure drop-off of involuntary individuals in crisis
· Separate areas for children and adults
· Welcoming, home-like environment, with soothing décor, soft lighting, and reclining chairs
· 80 parking spaces, with additional parking in the shared lot at existing Lenape Valley location
