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Prisma Health triples outpatient behavioral health services in Upstate with new $3.7 million outpatient center

Project will include a groundbreaking first-in-state mother-infant wellness program for women suffering from depression and anxiety disorders during pregnancy and postpartum

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GREENVILLE – Prisma Health will triple patient access to outpatient behavioral health services in the Upstate with the opening of its new $3.7 million Behavioral Health & Wellness Pavilion this week.

The 24,000-square-foot facility will open TODAY (Monday, Jan. 27), on the Greenville Memorial Hospital campus. It will feature therapy options through the former Brownell Center (now expanded and renamed the Grove Road Clinic) and ultimately also include five specialty day treatment programs, including a groundbreaking first-in-state mother-infant wellness program for women suffering from depression and anxiety disorders during pregnancy and postpartum.

Adult programs specializing in behavioral health and substance use disorders will open in January. Adolescent programs will include an eating-disorders program and a general behavioral health disorders program, both opening in May. 

“We’re excited to bring increased outpatient access and innovative behavioral health therapies to our communities through our new Behavioral Health & Wellness Pavilion,” said Dr. Karen Lommel, the Robert A. Jolley Jr. Endowed Chair of Psychiatry and Community Health for Prisma Health in the Upstate. 

Lommel said day treatment programs can be a good option for patients who don’t require hospital-level care but who would benefit from treatment that’s more intensive than regular office visits. These daytime programs are most often used for patients facing complex mental health challenges such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders, post-traumatic stress disorders and bipolar disorder. 

“Not only are patients able to get the additional treatment they need, but they go home every night for support from family and friends,” said Lommel. “It’s a very supportive option that we’re thrilled to offer on an expanded basis in the Upstate.” 

The outpatient expansion, along with the construction of a recently announced 112-licensed-bed behavioral health hospital, will provide the Upstate significantly enhanced care options across a broader continuum of needs. The projects are part of an almost $143 million expansion of outpatient and inpatient mental health services in the Upstate.

For more information on the Pavilion or how to access care, visit its website. 

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Prisma Health is a private nonprofit health company with over 32,000 team members, 19 acute and specialty hospitals, 3,131 licensed beds, 320 practice sites, and more than 5,900 employed and independent clinicians across its clinically integrated inVio Health Network. Each year, Prisma Health serves more than 1.6 million patients in South Carolina and Tennessee. Connect with Prisma Health on FacebookInstagramLinkedIn and  Twitter/X.   

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