Prisma Health opens $3.7 million behavioral health facility
The facility is expected to triple patient access to outpatient behavioral health services in South Carolina.
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Prisma Health, headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina, will triple patient access to outpatient behavioral health services in upstate South Carolina with the opening of its new $3.7 million Behavioral Health and Wellness Pavilion.
The opening took place this week.
The 24,000-square-foot facility opened its doors on Monday on the Greenville Memorial Hospital Campus. It features therapy options through the former Brownell Center (now expanded and renamed the Grove Road Clinic) and also includes five specialty day treatment programs, including a mother-infant wellness program for women suffering from depression and anxiety disorders during pregnancy and postpartum.
Prisma said that the program is the first of its kind in the state.
WHAT'S THE IMPACT
Adult programs specializing in behavioral health and substance use disorders will be open by the end of the month. Adolescent programs will include an eating-disorders program and a general behavioral health disorders program, both opening in May.
"We're excited to bring increased outpatient access and innovative behavioral health therapies to our communities through our new Behavioral Health & Wellness Pavilion," said Dr. Karen Lommel, the Robert A. Jolley Jr. Endowed Chair of Psychiatry and Community Health for Prisma Health in the Upstate.
Lommel said day treatment programs can be a good option for patients who don't require hospital-level care, but who would benefit from treatment that's more intensive than regular office visits. These daytime programs are most often used for patients facing complex mental health challenges such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders, post-traumatic stress disorders and bipolar disorder.
"Not only are patients able to get the additional treatment they need, but they go home every night for support from family and friends," said Lommel. "It's a very supportive option that we're thrilled to offer on an expanded basis in the Upstate."
THE LARGER TREND
Prisma Health is a private, nonprofit health company with over 32,000 team members, 19 acute and specialty hospitals, 3,131 licensed beds, 320 practice sites, and more than 5,900 employed and independent clinicians across its clinically integrated inVio Health Network.
The outpatient expansion is happening alongside the construction of a 112-licensed-bed behavioral health hospital, and both are part of an almost $143 million expansion of outpatient and inpatient mental health services in that part of the state.
Each year, Prisma Health serves more than 1.6 million patients in South Carolina and Tennessee.
Jeff Lagasse is editor of Healthcare Finance News.
Email: jlagasse@himss.org
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