Brentwood, Tenn.-based Lifepoint Behavioral Health and Lynchburg, Va.-based Centra Health have entered a joint venture to open a new inpatient behavioral health hospital.
The Centra Behavioral Health Hospital will be approximately 75,000 square feet and have 72 beds, according to a March 2 news release.
Centra and Lifepoint Rehabilitation, also based in Brentwood, entered a separate joint venture partnership in 2022 to build a freestanding, 50-bed acute inpatient rehabilitation hospital.
Lifepoint Behavioral Health and Lifepoint Rehabilitation are both business units of Lifepoint Health.
Both the behavioral health and rehabilitation facilities will be in Lynchburg on property Centra purchased in 2017 to form a new specialty care medical campus.
Construction for the behavioral health hospital is slated to begin in summer 2024 and open in 2025.