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ECU Health and Acadia Healthcare Host Groundbreaking Ceremony for New Behavioral Health Hospital
– 144-bed hospital anticipated to open in Spring 2025 – GREENVILLE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ECU Health and Acadia Healthcare held a ceremony today to
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n– 144-bed hospital anticipated to open in Spring 2025 –\n\n\n GREENVILLE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nECU Health and Acadia Healthcare held a ceremony today to celebrate the start of construction on its previously announced state-of-the-art, 144-bed behavioral health hospital in Greenville, North Carolina. The event occurred on the site of the new hospital – located at 2820 MacGregor Downs Road, Greenville, North Carolina 27834 – and celebrated the joint venture partnership between ECU Health and Acadia Healthcare, which will own and operate the new hospital together.\n\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231101651362/en/ECU Health and Acadia Healthcare Break Ground on Construction of a New Behavioral Health Hospital in Greenville, North Carolina, with an anticipated opening in Spring 2025. Left to right: Brennen Reynolds, Jeffrey Woods, Dr. Sy Saeed, Isa Diaz, Dr. Michael Genovese, Chris Hunter, Sec. Kody H. Kinsley, Dr. Michael Waldrum, Brian Floyd, Todd Hickey, Bob Greczyn, Dr. Michael Lang, Chancellor Philip Rogers, William Monk (Photo: Business Wire)\nSlated to open in Spring 2025, the hospital will be a center of excellence situated less than a mile from ECU Health Medical Center. It will offer comprehensive inpatient and intensive outpatient treatment for adults, seniors, children and adolescents who struggle with acute symptoms of mental health such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as well as treatment for co-occurring disorders. Thomas Construction Group is the general contractor and Stengel Hill Architecture is the architect for the project.\n\n\n“Too many people, including children, in North Carolina get stuck in emergency departments when they urgently need short-term and high-quality behavioral health care,” said North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Sec. Kody H. Kinsley. “This new hospital will create lasting change in this region by making behavioral health services easier to access when and where they are needed.”\n\n\nThe new hospital will also serve as a teaching hospital for psychiatry, social work, nursing and other behavioral health professionals. This will address the shortage of clinical behavioral healthcare professionals in the area, training students and residents fro...