Prisma Health plans to build $138 million inpatient behavioral health hospital in the Upstate

Media released provided by Prisma Health on Nov. 7, 2024.

GREENVILLE, SC —Prisma Health plans to build a new $138 million inpatient behavioral health hospital in the Upstate that will take a significant step forward in addressing the region’s growing need for enhanced access to cutting-edge behavioral health services. Prisma hopes to begin site work in spring 2025, pending Certificate of Need approval. Construction is expected to take approximately two years.

The hospital will be supported with $100 million in state funds appropriated to the S.C. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) by the state’s General Assembly. The three-story behavioral health hospital is slated to be built on 46 acres at the corner of U.S. 123 and S.C. 153 in Pickens County. The 132,430-square-foot facility will be licensed for 112 beds that will replace Prisma Health’s 65-bed Marshall I. Pickens Psychiatric hospital (MIPH) located on the Greenville Memorial Hospital campus. As the only inpatient behavioral health facility in the Upstate to treat children, Prisma will quadruple the number of child and adolescent beds from 10 to 40 with the remaining 72 beds licensed for adults. This new facility will significantly improve the patient experience with current best-practice designs that provide a more healing, nurturing environment.

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