Baystate Health & Kindred Healthcare Partner On New Behavioral Health Hospital

On July 21, 2020, Baystate Health and Kindred Healthcare LLC announced plans to form a joint venture that will build and operate a $43 million, 120-bed state-of-the-art behavioral health hospital in western Massachusetts. After the new hospital opens in 2022, Kindred will manage day-to-day operations of the hospital, and Baystate Health psychiatrists and advanced practitioners will provide care under the medical leadership of Barry Sarvet, M.D., chair of Psychiatry at Baystate Health.

The facility will provide specialty inpatient behavioral health care for adults (including geriatrics), adolescents, and children. There are currently no inpatient . . .