Two New Mental Health Hospitals Coming To Lacey, Washington

A new agreement between Providence St. Peter Hospital (Providence), the Washington state Department of Health, and US HealthVest will lead to two new mental health hospitals being created in Lacey. The agreement stems from Providence’s decision to n longer appeal the state’s decision to award US HealthVest a certificate of need for its hospital proposal.

Providence will be behind the creation of an 85-bed hospital named Olympia Behavioral Health, while US HealthVest will be renovating an existing 108-facility into its new hospital, Sound Behavioral Hospital. Olympia Behavioral Health is planned to open mid-2019, and South . . .