From a 292-bed state-funded psychiatric hospital in Texas to New Mexico’s only children’s emergency psychiatric unit, hospitals and health systems are expanding behavioral health access as demand continues to grow.
Here are 62 behavioral health projects to know:
- Winchester, Va.-based Valley Health opened its Behavioral Health Pavilion Oct. 26, consolidating outpatient mental and behavioral health services previously spread across several locations into one facility on the Winchester Medical Center campus. The pavilion serves children and adolescents ages 5-17 and adults 18 and older. It accepts self-referrals as well as referrals from physicians, advanced practice providers and community agencies.
- The Texas Health and Human Services Commission reached a construction milestone for the new Wichita Falls State Hospital with the placement of its final steel beam. The $452 million, 225-bed replacement psychiatric hospital is expected to be completed in late 2027. The 411,505-square-foot facility will provide inpatient psychiatric care for adults and children. The project is part of Texas’ broader effort to modernize its behavioral health infrastructure, with more than $2.5 billion invested in state facilities since 2017.
- Belmont, Mass.-based McLean Hospital, part of Mass General Brigham, plans to establish a metabolic psychiatry center backed by a $20 million grant from Baszucki Group, an organization founded by Roblox CEO David Baszucki and Jan Ellison Baszucki that funds research at the intersection of metabolism and mental health. The McLean Center for Metabolic Psychiatry will combine patient care, research and physician training to explore how metabolic interventions can be used to treat psychiatric conditions.
- East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika, Ala., opened a 20-bed geriatric psychiatry unit for adults ages 65 and older experiencing mental health conditions including depression, anxiety, dementia and mood disorders. The unit is staffed by psychiatrists and senior behavioral health specialists, with residents from East Alabama Health’s Psychiatry Residency Program also participating in patient care. The opening comes nine months after East Alabama Medical Center North, a 40-bed inpatient psychiatry hospital serving adults, children and adolescents, opened in Opelika.
- Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health plans to renovate an existing building in Charlotte’s University City area into a 168-bed behavioral health hospital, adding 102 inpatient beds for pediatric and adult patients. The project is part of the system’s $340 million investment over five years to expand behavioral health services. Because the project skips ground-up construction, Atrium expects to open the hospital in 2028, a year to a year and a half sooner than a new build would allow.
- A $138 million behavioral health hospital project in Greenville, S.C., is expected to expand inpatient care for children and adults in the Upstate. The three-story facility, planned for Old Easley Bridge Road, will quadruple the number of beds for children and adolescents and double inpatient capacity. The project aims to reduce the need for patients to travel outside the region for care. More than 3,300 patients, including children, were transported out of the Upstate last year because of insufficient bed availability.
- Mechanicsburg, Penn.-based Arkview Behavioral Health opened a residential mental health treatment facility in Fayetteville, Pa., dedicated to individuals experiencing depression, anxiety, trauma and mood disorders who need more support than outpatient care can provide. The facility offers individual therapy, psychiatric care and small-group treatment in a setting separate from Arkview’s substance use treatment programs. The center also connects patients to Arkview’s partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs in Mechanicsburg and York, Pa. With the opening, Arkview now operates four centers in Pennsylvania.
- York, Penn.-based WellSpan Health opened a behavioral health walk-in crisis center in Gettysburg, Pa., offering an alternative to emergency department care for individuals experiencing mental health crises. The center operates seven days a week and provides same-day behavioral health assessments, short-term stabilization, suicide and violence risk evaluations and connections to ongoing treatment without appointments or referrals. The center serves individuals of all ages, with patients requiring higher levels of medical care transported to a hospital emergency department.
- Mercy Medical Center Redding (Calif.) plans to open a six-patient Emergency Psychiatric Assessment, Treatment, and Healing unit in early 2027. The 23-hour observation unit will provide psychiatric assessment, treatment and connections to follow-up care for adults experiencing mental health crises. The hospital aims to reduce emergency department wait times, which averaged 1.5 days for approximately 45% of its 1,800 behavioral health patients in fiscal 2025. The project is funded in part through the State of California Rural Health Transformation Grant.
- Georgia officials broke ground on a $20.7 million, 40-bed mental health facility in Augusta aimed at reducing waitlists for court-ordered treatment, as more than 800 individuals await hospital beds for competency restoration services. The facility will be built on the campus of East Central Regional Hospital and serve individuals found incompetent to stand trial who require treatment before their criminal cases can proceed. The facility will expand the state’s capacity to provide competency restoration services, which help individuals understand legal proceedings and assist in their own defense.
- Michigan has completed construction of the $383.4 million Southeast Michigan Psychiatric Hospital in Northville Township, a 264-bed facility slated to begin accepting patients this fall. The hospital will accommodate up to 192 adults and 72 youth, adding 54 beds to the state’s inpatient psychiatric capacity. The project is also expected to create 150 healthcare jobs. Spanning more than 400,000 square feet, the facility has separate living and program spaces for adults and children. It includes 198 single-bed suites with private bathrooms, 33 double rooms and 12 secure outdoor courtyards, along with a gymnasium, art rooms and sensory spaces.
- University of California San Diego researchers received a $12.6 million award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to establish the Polysubstance Addiction Research Center. The center will examine addiction involving cocaine, oxycodone, alcohol and the combination of cocaine and oxycodone. Research will be divided among three interconnected projects focused on brain networks, gene activity in specific types of brain cells and the role the gut and vagus nerve may play in addiction-related behaviors.
- A $10 million grant from Bank of America will support Boston Children’s Hospital’s plans for a pediatric behavioral health campus in Brighton, Mass. Boston Children’s will develop the space on the campus of Franciscan Children’s, which became part of the Boston Children’s health system in 2023. Plans for the Brighton campus call for single-patient rooms and specialized programs for children with autism and intellectual and developmental disabilities. The campus will provide inpatient, outpatient and rehabilitation services, and the added capacity is expected to help shorten wait times and support earlier intervention.
- Spartanburg (S.C.) Regional Healthcare System opened an 11-bed Adolescent Behavioral Health Unit at Spartanburg Medical Center – Mary Black Campus to expand inpatient mental healthcare for young people experiencing behavioral health crises. The unit, staffed by a multidisciplinary team that includes child- and adolescent-trained psychiatrists, will serve patients from Spartanburg, Cherokee and Union counties. The program is part of broader efforts through Vital Spartanburg to improve access to mental healthcare and coordinate services across the community.
- A 9,200-square-foot inpatient youth crisis treatment facility is under construction in Redmond, Ore., and will provide 16 beds for youth ages 12 to 17 recovering from acute mental health crises or living with long-term mental illness. Headwaters Behavioral Health will operate the 24-hour facility, which will offer medication management, therapy, life skills training and academic support. Construction is estimated to cost around $8.7 million, with $3.1 million approved by state lawmakers, matching funds promised by the Oregon Health Authority and a $750,000 grant from the Central Oregon Health Council.
- Springfield, Vt.-based Health Care & Rehabilitation Services plans to start offering 24/7 walk-in services at a new mental health urgent care center in Brattleboro January 2027. The organization will receive $3.6 million in grant funding from the Vermont Department of Mental Health to develop the center, which will serve adults and youth with peer support, crisis intervention and stabilization, medical support, care coordination, assessment and connections to ongoing services. The project will also add four short-term crisis stabilization beds for children and youth, and about 34 positions are expected to be created.
- Yellowstone County in Montana is launching a mobile crisis response program backed by a four-year, $3 million federal grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The grant period officially begins Sept. 30, and the program must be operational within the first six months. It will launch with one two-person team operating 10 hours a day, seven days a week, comprising a licensed behavioral health clinician and an EMT from the Billings Fire Department. By the end of year two, the program aims to reach 24/7 coverage, with expansion into rural parts of Yellowstone County planned by the end of year three.
- San Diego County officials opened a $29 million Substance Use Residential & Treatment Services center in National City that will add 73 residential treatment beds and 16 recuperative care beds when it opens this fall. The facility will be the first in the county to integrate substance use treatment and recuperative care services for adults under one roof. The facility is expected to serve about 503 people each year through residential care and approximately 167 annually through recuperative care. Ontario, Calif.-based New Creation Behavioral Healthcare Foundation will operate the facility.
- ACCESS completed a $25 million, 53,000-square-foot Recovery Center in Dearborn, Mich., that will bring around-the-clock addiction and mental health treatment to the organization for the first time. The three-story facility is expected to begin opening in phases in early 2027, adding urgent care, withdrawal management, crisis stabilization and short-term residential treatment to ACCESS’ existing behavioral health and substance-use programs.
- The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs plans to open a $78 million residential rehabilitation treatment facility in New Orleans East. The 60-bed, two-story facility will span about 100,000 square feet and provide transitional and residential care for veterans served by the VA Southeast Louisiana Healthcare System, as well as veterans from Mississippi and Alabama. Services will include behavioral health and substance-use treatment, counseling and therapy. The facility will also include a dedicated section for women veterans. The project is targeted for completion by the end of 2028, followed by VA startup operations in early 2029.
- King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services opened Three Trails Behavioral Hospital, a 120-bed behavioral health facility in Independence, Mo. The 88,000-square-foot hospital will provide inpatient treatment, partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs for children, adolescents, adults and seniors. The facility represents an investment of more than $60 million and will create more than 200 full-time jobs when fully operational. Three Trails Behavioral Hospital will begin welcoming patients in September 2026.
- Oconomowoc, Wis.-based Rogers Behavioral Health is expanding its footprint across the state with an Eau Claire clinic expected to begin programming in late September. The clinic will provide partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient mental health services for teens and adults. Care will address depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, while adults can also receive treatment for substance use challenges.
- Loma Linda (Calif.) University Health held a Sept. 15 ribbon-cutting for its Emergency Psychiatric Assessment, Treatment, and Healing (EmPATH) Unit. Located in the Hinshaw Towers, the unit has 24 treatment spaces divided evenly between pediatric and adult patients. The space allows patients experiencing a mental health crisis to transition out of the emergency department for assessment and determination of the appropriate level of care. The Children’s Hospital was the only pediatric center selected. The EmPATH unit is expected to be fully operational in 2027.
- York County is building a 50-bed York County Regional Recovery Center in Alfred, Maine, that will provide detox, residential and outpatient treatment. The 55,000-square-foot center will include eight detox beds and offer a 30-day program, a 6-month program, an intensive outpatient program and individual counseling. The center is expected to be finished in December and start accepting patients in February 2027. Most of the funding comes from the American Recovery Plan Act.
- Syracuse, N.Y.-based Upstate Medical University opened the Kimberly and John Mezzalingua Pediactric Behavioral After Hours Center, which provides behavioral and mental healthcare for children, teens and young adults. The center offers parents and families an alternative to bringing children to an emergency room for behavioral and mental health issues. The facility is open Monday through Thursday from 11 am to 8 pm, with after-hours reserved for children and families. Kimberly and John Mezzalingua donated $5 million dollars to the center.
- New York Medical Center opened an inpatient addiction recovery and behavioral health facility at the former Lakeshore Hospital in Irving, N.Y. The facility began operations with 20 inpatient substance use disorder treatment beds and five detoxification beds. Future phases over the next two years will add behavioral health services. Main Rd Med Group invested more than $42 million to redevelop the 173,000-square-foot former hospital, which will have 180 beds when fully complete.
- UNC Health Pardee opened a 23-bed adolescent behavioral health center that provides acute inpatient psychiatric care for adolescents experiencing behavioral health crises. Pardee Adolescent Behavioral Health Center is located within Pardee Hospital and provides care for adolescents whose needs can be appropriately treated in a hospital-based psychiatric setting. The center’s multidisciplinary care team provides treatment focused on stabilization, recovery and transition to appropriate follow-up care.
- Ripley (Tenn.) Behavioral Health opened its doors to serve individuals experiencing a psychiatric emergency or mental health crisis. The hospital will hold a grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony Sept. 8.
- Indianapolis-based Riley Children’s Health plans to open an 11-bed Pediatric Medical-Behavioral Health Unit this fall, Indiana’s first and among the first of its kind in the nation. The unit is expected to serve approximately 325 patients annually and will provide integrated care for children and adolescents who need medical and behavioral health treatment at the same time. The unit will include specialized dually boarded pediatrician/child and adolescent psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, therapists, social workers and other behavioral health specialists. It also includes a classroom, sensory room, recreation room and a dedicated space for art therapy and therapeutic programming.
- Kankakee, Ill.-based Riverside Healthcare opened its newly renovated adult inpatient behavioral health unit, the first completed phase of a nearly $30 million project to modernize and expand its inpatient behavioral health facilities. The project began in fall 2025 and is expected to continue through 2027. Riverside will temporarily suspend services in its inpatient child and adolescent behavioral health unit during the next phase of renovation, while children and adolescents experiencing a behavioral health crisis can continue to seek care through the Riverside Medical Center Emergency Department.
- Cranston, R.I.-based CODAC Behavioral Healthcare opened its second mobile medical van Aug. 17, offering medication for opioid use disorder in Washington County. The mobile unit is staffed by a peer recovery specialist and a nurse who mixes and dispenses methadone and buprenorphine for each patient, with a doctor visiting the site two to three times per week. It also offers counseling, blood pressure checks, glucose readings and mental health screenings.
- OSF HealthCare Sacred Heart Medical Center – Urbana in Illinois opened its renovated and expanded inpatient behavioral health services, with treatment programs focused on young adults and senior patients. The expansion includes 40 private inpatient behavioral health beds. Another 25 inpatient beds for medical detoxification or other conditions are opening late 2026. The hospital will offer 65 beds dedicated to mental health treatment. Its specialized programs focus on young adult patients ages 18-26 and senior patients ages 55 and older. US HealthVest will oversee the new units.
- Akron (Ohio) Children’s opened an expanded 30-bed inpatient behavioral health unit Aug. 25. The unit, previously 24 beds, moved from the 8th floor of the main hospital building to the 5th floor of Akron Children’s Kay Jewelers Pavilion. The space has capacity to expand to 40 beds. The unit features different levels of hospitalization and programming for patients ages 5 up to 18. Patients are assigned to a regular acute care unit, high acute care unit or crisis stabilization unit based on diagnosis and the level of support needed.
- UC San Francisco is creating a national Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders aimed at improving early identification and access to treatment. The center will train healthcare providers nationwide to identify and screen for eating disorders and connect children and adults with appropriate treatment. It will also develop educational and clinical tools and serve as a national hub connecting investigators across institutions and disciplines. The center is backed by a five-year federal grant of more than $9 million from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
- Nashville, Tenn.-based Centerstone held a grand opening for its first clinic in Buffalo, Mo., expanding behavioral healthcare services into Dallas County. The Centerstone Buffalo clinic offers outpatient therapy and counseling, medication management, community support services and substance use recovery treatment. The clinic also has a dedicated telehealth space and a group gathering space for group therapy and educational opportunities.
- Yankton, S.D.-based Park Haven Learning and Recovery Center, an 18-bed residential treatment program for women dealing with substance use disorder, opened its doors Aug. 24. The center is devoted to serving women, including pregnant women and mothers with dependent children. The private residential rooms feature private bathrooms, and accommodations allow women with infants or young children to stay with their mother.
- The Texas Health and Human Services Commission and Texas Department of Family and Protective Services opened Terrell Center for Youth, a specialized residential youth treatment facility for adolescents with complex mental health, substance use or intellectual and developmental disability needs. Operated by HHSC, the facility will serve up to 30 youth ages 13 to 17 years old who are under DFPS conservatorship.
- The New Mexico Behavioral Health Institute opened the Epi-Duran Substance Abuse Treatment facility Aug. 24 in Las Vegas. The 16,340-square-foot facility will offer 20 beds for residential treatment and eight beds for detox treatment. The program will provide substance use treatment for individuals in need of both detox and residential care. It will also create more than 30 jobs in the community.
- Coastal Pines Behavioral Health marked the completion of its 144-bed acute behavioral health hospital in St. Augustine, Fla., with an Aug. 14 ribbon-cutting ceremony. The hospital is expected to begin serving patients in the coming weeks. It will offer inpatient psychiatric treatment for adults and senior adults. Franklin, Tenn.-based Acadia Healthcare operates Coastal Pines Behavioral Health, which plans to expand its programming in future phases of development.
- Wellstar Golisano Children’s Hospital of Georgia in Augusta cut the ribbon on the Kisner Foundation and Friends Center for Pediatric Development, Behavioral Health & Wellness in Augusta, Ga. The facility consolidates pediatric clinics that had operated across different locations on the hospital campus, bringing specialists together in one location. It offers pediatric rehabilitation, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy, developmental behavioral pediatrics and pediatric neurosciences. Pediatric psychiatry services are also expected to be added.
- Hendersonville, N.C.-based UNC Health Pardee completed construction of the 23-bed inpatient Pardee Adolescent Behavioral Health Center at Pardee Hospital with an Aug. 12 ribbon cutting. The center is awaiting final state licensure review, according to an Aug. 13 news release from the system. UNC Health Pardee said it plans to open the center after final approval from the state.
- Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine broke ground on the Janice M. Granger Behavioral Health Building, a 64-bed, $83 million behavioral health facility, during an Aug. 5 ceremony in Lansing, Mich. The facility will serve adult, geriatric, and child and adolescent patients.
- Rochester (N.Y.) Regional Health opened a new facility on East Ridge Road to expand its mental health services through a $5 million investment. The new location brings the health system’s mental health and addiction recovery services together in one facility to improve access to care, according to the information provided. The facility serves people 18 years or older.
- Plano, Texas-based Oceans Healthcare opened Oceans Behavioral Hospital of Greater New Orleans — Kenner West in Kenner, La. The campus occupies the facility previously operated as Perimeter Behavioral Hospital of New Orleans. The campus provides inpatient behavioral healthcare services for adults and older adults, as well as outpatient behavioral health programming.
- Sauget, Ill.-based SIHF Healthcare will build a $231 million hospital in Cahokia Heights that will replace Touchette Regional Hospital. The new campus will increase Touchette’s psychiatric bed count, from 38 to 96, split among 24 adolescent beds, 24 senior beds and 48 adult beds.
- Stamford (Conn.) Health opened the Bennett Child & Adolescent EmPATH Unit and PATHways Program located within the Stamford Hospital Emergency Department to expand behavioral health services for children and adolescents in Fairfield County. The Carl & Dorothy Bennett Foundation contributed $1 million to support the initiative.
- Yale New Haven (Conn.) Children’s Hospital unveiled a Crisis Intervention Center, a dedicated behavioral health treatment area within its emergency department. The center will begin caring for patients in August. The new space uses the Emergency Psychiatric Assessment, Treatment and Healing (EmPATH) model, which focuses on rapid evaluation, crisis stabilization and connecting patients with ongoing behavioral health services in a therapeutic environment.
- San Bernardino County opened the Kern Street Adult Residential Facility, a 30-bed licensed residential care facility for adults ages 18 and older with serious mental illness, June 25. The facility was developed by San Bernardino-based Helping Hearts California in partnership with the county, Inland Empire Health Plan and Molina Healthcare. San Bernardino County provided $2.5 million in Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention funding. The project also received $1.69 million in Housing and Homelessness Incentive Program funding from Inland Empire Health Plan and Molina Healthcare.
- Sweetser, a nonprofit behavioral and mental healthcare organization in Saco, Maine, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new youth psychiatric residential treatment facility. The facility will provide 24/7 intensive care for Maine youth under 21 with acute behavioral healthcare needs. It will have 16 beds and be staffed with psychiatrists, behavioral care and mental health experts, and qualified nursing staff.
- Ascension Wisconsin in Glendale invested $10 million to renovate and open a new behavioral health unit at Milwaukee-based St. Francis Hospital. The center officially opens July 1 and will serve 61 adults and children in need of behavioral health services. The hospital expects the new unit to serve an additional 1,000 patients in its first year.
- Oconomowoc, Wis.-based Rogers Behavioral Health opened two new facilities, including a 24-bed residential treatment site for adults with eating disorders in June and a 20-bed residential care center for young adults receiving treatment for OCD, anxiety and depression in August.
- Florence, S.C.-based McLeod Regional Medical Center opened a pediatric behavioral health crisis stabilization unit for children experiencing psychiatric emergencies. The new pediatric EmPATH — emergency psychiatric assessment, treatment and healing — unit includes 15 beds and is housed within McLeod Children’s Hospital. The program is designed to provide rapid psychiatric evaluation and short-term treatment for pediatric patients in a dedicated care environment.
- Sheridan (Wyo.) Memorial Hospital hosted an open house for the Path Behavioral Health Center June 24. In mid-July, the hospital’s outpatient behavioral health clinic will relocate from the SMH Outpatient Center to the Path. The clinic will continue providing psychiatric services from the new location. The facility’s crisis stabilization program is expected to open later this summer, followed by inpatient behavioral health services later this year.
- Greensburg, Pa.-based Independence Health System opened a 28-bed inpatient behavioral health unit at its Latrobe Hospital June 25. The unit treats adults experiencing depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation, among other behavioral health conditions. It is supported by a $2.5 million donation from the Latrobe Area Hospital Charitable Foundation.
- Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital Behavioral Health Hospital launched a partial hospitalization program to bridge the care gap between inpatient care and outpatient services. The structured daytime treatment program will provide intensive behavioral healthcare without requiring an overnight hospital stay.
- New Orleans-based LCMC Health broke ground on a behavioral health expansion at New Orleans East Hospital, creating the hospital’s first inpatient behavioral health unit since it opened in 2014. The project is intended to expand access to mental healthcare services for residents of New Orleans East and neighboring communities.
- Northwell Health Physician Partners opened a new standalone behavioral health practice in Melville, N.Y., expanding outpatient mental health services for patients of all ages in Suffolk County. The more than 5,500-square-foot facility offers psychiatric evaluations, medication management and therapy services and is modeled after the organization’s outpatient behavioral health practice in Manhasset, N.Y., which opened in 2013.
- The Texas Health and Human Services Commission and UT Southwestern Medical Center opened the Texas Behavioral Health Center June 23, a new inpatient psychiatric hospital in Dallas. The facility was funded with $384 million from the state and $261 million from Children’s Health and will have 292 beds when fully operational, including 200 adult beds and up to 92 pediatric beds.
- Ochsner Lafayette General and Plano, Texas-based Oceans Healthcare opened Ochsner Behavioral Health Acadiana-Lafayette, a new 62-bed behavioral health hospital in Lafayette, La., that will begin accepting patients July 7. The opening expands behavioral health access across Acadiana and increases the total inpatient capacity of Ochsner Behavioral Health Acadiana to 100 beds.
- Stamford (Conn.) Health will build a new cancer center and behavioral health facility as part of a $275 million expansion project. As part of the project, the health system’s existing Bennett Cancer Center will be converted into a behavioral health facility with inpatient and outpatient care capacity, with construction expected to begin in 2027.
- Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health opened Belle Mead, N.J.-based Carrier Clinic’s $40 million, 43,000-square-foot expansion project to expand care for children and adolescents facing mental health crises. The project adds 52 inpatient beds for youths and includes multi-sensory rooms, The Cohen Community Resource and Education Center as a family resource and training center, and a medical staff suite for teaching.
- Albuquerque-based University of New Mexico Hospital opened a $36 million, 32,500-square-foot Children’s Psychiatric Center, housing 36 inpatient beds and the capacity to expand to 52. The center is the state’s only children’s emergency psychiatric unit that serves patients regardless of ability to pay. It also includes a dedicated four-bed unit for the highest-acuity patients. The hospital expects to begin seeing patients in July.
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