Key takeaways:
- Atrium says it’s investing $340 million over five years in mental health care, which will add another 102 beds to existing capacity in Charlotte.
- System leaders say the investment responds to a severe psychiatric bed shortage. that’s exacerbated by a lack of community-based services.
- Atrium is converting an existing building, which will speed the process, and also funding community services.
By Michelle Crouch
When Atrium Health CEO Gene Woods first visited Atrium Health’s behavioral health hospital on Randolph Road in Charlotte 10 years ago, the facility was already in need of an upgrade.
“The building was showing its age then, and it is certainly showing its age now,” he recalled Thursday…