Mercy Health & Lifepoint Behavioral Health Announce Agreement To Build New Inpatient Behavioral Health Hospital

Mercy Health - Youngstown and Lifepoint Behavioral Health, a business unit of Lifepoint Health, entered into a joint venture partnership to build and operate a new inpatient behavioral health hospital in the Mahoning Valley. Upon completion, Mercy Health Behavioral Hospital will be Lifepoint Behavioral Health’s sixth joint-venture, standalone behavioral health hospital nationally and first in the state of Ohio.

The Mercy Health Behavioral Hospital will be a 75,000-square-foot, 72-bed hospital, providing inpatient services for adults struggling with depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, addiction, and other mental health illnesses. This new facility will be structurally designed to . . .