Anoka Metro Regional Treatment Center

The Anoka Metro Regional Treatment Center (AMRTC), located at 3301 North 7th Avenue in Anoka, Minnesota, is the state’s largest inpatient behavioral health hospital. AMRTC specializes in providing comprehensive care for adults with complex psychiatric and medical conditions that community hospitals cannot or will not treat. The facility is secure, with locked treatment units, and most patients stay approximately 90 days for stabilization, recovery, and transition planning. Admission is strictly by referral, typically from county social service agencies, courts, community hospitals, and other mental health providers, and patients can be referred from anywhere in Minnesota.

AMRTC offers a wide array of inpatient services, including psychiatric assessments, medication management, individual, group, family, and marital therapy, as well as multidisciplinary care delivered by psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, and occupational therapists. The hospital emphasizes evidence-based and trauma-informed interventions, illness management, and recovery, while ensuring individualized discharge planning and care coordination to help patients successfully transition back into the community. With its focus on adults with severe mental illness and co-occurring disorders, AMRTC provides a safe, structured environment for recovery and stabilization.