New Behavioral Health Unit Becomes First In County Affiliated With A Hospital System

The Grand Strand health system is adding a new behavioral health unit to service patients with psychiatric illness admitted to the system’s hospital. The hospital reports that more than 3,000 consumers with psychiatric needs visited the hospital’s emergency room in 2017, but had no appropriate unit to be transitioned to.

Consumers will be able to be treated for services such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, psychosis, and others. An added benefit of the new unit will be that it is connected to the existing hospital system, meaning that patients in need of mental health care will . . .