The D.C. government is searching for a new location for a critical psychiatric center now that struggling Greater Southeast Community Hospital has withdrawn from an agreement to housethe program there.

Through the Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program, the District’s Department of Mental Health provides emergency evaluations and treatment for 280 adults annually at its six-bed facility on the D.C. General Campus. But the office has deteriorated to the point where it “now threatens the health and safety of both patients and … employees,” according to an emergency resolution recently adopted by the D.C. Council.