EXHIBIT 3.34

                            ARTICLES OR INCORPORATION

                                       OF

                             BHC ROSS HOSPITAL, INC.

      The undersigned person, having capacity to contract and acting as the
incorporator of a corporation under Section 200 of the General Corporation Law
of California adopts the following Articles of Incorporation for such
corporation:

      1. The name of the corporation is BHC Ross Hospital, Inc. (the
"Corporation").

      2. The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or
activity for which a corporation may be organized under the General Corporation
Law of California other than the banking business, the trust company business or
the practice of a profession permitted to be incorporated by the California
Corporations Code.

      3. The name and address in the State of California of this corporation's
initial agent for services of process is Judy G. House, 111 Sir Francis Drake
Blvd., Kentfield, California 94904.

      4. The governing board of the Corporation shall be known as directors, and
the number of directors shall be fixed by the by- laws .

      5. The maximum number of shares which the Corporation shall have the
authority to issue is One Thousand (1,000) shares of Common Stock. All of such
shares shall be without par value.



      6. The liability of a director of the Corporation for monetary damages
shall be eliminated to the fullest extent permitted by the General Corporation
Law of California, as so amended. Any repeal or modification of the foregoing by
the shareholders shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a
director of the Corporation existing at the time of such repeal or modification.

      7. The corporation is authorized to provide indemnification of agents (as
defined in Section 317 of the California General Corporation Law) through bylaw
provisions, agreements with agents, vote of shareholders or disinterested
directors or otherwise, in excess of the indemnification otherwise permitted by
Section 317 of the California General Corporation law, subject only to the
applicable limits set forth in Section 204 of the California General Corporation
law with respect to actions for breach of duty to the corporation and its
shareholders. The Corporation may, to the full extent permitted by law, purchase
and maintain insurance on behalf of any such person against any liability which
nay be asserted against him or her from a company, the shares of which are owned
in whole or in part by this Corporation, provided that any policy issued by such
company is limited to the extent required by applicable law.



      IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 23 day of November,
1994.

                                        /s/ Michael E. Davis
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                                        Michael E. Davis
                                        chief Financial Officer
                                        Behavioral Healthcare corporation
                                        Incorporator

State of Tennesses

County of Davidson

      On this 23 day of November, 1994, before me, a Notary Public personally
appeared Michael E. Davis who acknowledged that he executed the above
instrument.

                                        /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]
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                                        Notary Public

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