Mercy Health & Lifepoint Behavioral Health To Build New Inpatient Behavioral Health Hospital In Mahoning Valley, Ohio

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 72-bed inpatient behavioral health hospital in the Mahoning Valley region of Ohio. The hospital will provide services for adults. 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.

Lifepoint Behavioral Health will manage the day-to-day operations of the inpatient behavioral health hospital. This new facility will be structurally designed to create a therapeutic environment . . .