Prisma Health Breaks Ground On A 112-Bed Inpatient Behavioral Health Hospital

Prisma Health and South Carolina state leaders broke ground on a $138 million, 112-bed inpatient behavioral health hospital near Easley, in the state’s Upstate region. Construction is slated to last for two years. It will replace Prisma’s 65-bed Marshall I. Pickens Hospital, which was built in 1969.

The public-private partnership is supported with $100 million in state funds appropriated to the state's Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) by the state’s General Assembly. The state funding consists of one-time, non-recurring dollars, intended to grow psychiatric inpatient and outpatient capacity. The . . .