Eastern State Hospital serves civil patients to include geriatric patients and habilitative patients (who live with both a mental illness and developmental delay). The hospital also serves forensic patients to include not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity patients and competency restoration patients.
| 
 Ward  | 
 Number of Beds  | 
 Category  | 
 Type of Ward  | 
|---|---|---|---|
| 
 1S1  | 
 28  | 
 Competency Evaluation  | 
 Forensic - Admission  | 
| 
 2S1  | 
 40  | 
 Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity  | 
 Forensic – Court Committed  | 
| 
 3N1  | 
 6 24  | 
 Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity Civil Conversion & Civil with Special Finding of Violent Felony  | 
Hybrid Ward - Forensic & Civil | 
| 
 3S1  | 
 8  | 
 Competency Restoration  | 
 Forensic  | 
| 
 3S2  | 
 27  | 
 Competency Restoration  | 
 Forensic  | 
| 
 1N3  | 
 25  | 
 Competency Restoration  | 
 Forensic  | 
| 
 2N3  | 
 30  | 
 Competency Restoration  | 
 Forensic  | 
| 
 3N3  | 
 25  | 
 Competency Restoration  | 
 Forensic  | 
| 
 1N1  | 
 30  | 
 Adult Psychiatric  | 
 Civil - Admission  | 
| 
 2N1  | 
 30  | 
 Adult Psychiatric  | 
 Civil  | 
| HMH | 12 | Habilitative Mental Health | Dual Diagnosis | 
| B | 30 | Gero-Psychiatric | Civil | 
| D | 30 | Gero-Psychiatric | Civil | 
| E | 30 | Gero-Psychiatric | Civil |