Mercy Health Youngstown and Lifepoint Behavioral Health, a unit of Lifepoint Health have announced plans for a partnership to build and operate a new inpatient behavioral health hospital. 

The Mercy Health Behavioral Hospital will be a 75,000 square-foot 72-bed hospital that plans to provide inpatient services for adults struggling with depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, substance use disorder and other mental health illnesses. 

The behavioral hospital will be structurally designed to create a therapeutic environment for patients, featuring open, airy spaces with amenities that include spacious patient rooms, community areas, outside courtyards, and state of the art clinical spaces to support the needs of patients and families. 

 Lifepoint Behavioral Health will manage the day-to-day operations of the inpatient behavioral health hospital.

“This hospital will broaden Mercy Health’s ability to provide much-needed inpatient behavioral health care and help us further our mission of bringing good help to those in need,” said John Luellen, MD, market president of Mercy Health.

Construction for the Mercy Health Behavioral Hospital is expected to begin this summer, and open in late 2024. 

Mercy Health and Lifepoint Rehabilitation, also a unit of Lifepoint Health will also be opening a rehabilitation hospital in Liberty Township on Belmont Avenue in the summer of 2024. 

The 60-bed, inpatient rehabilitation  hospital will focus on treating patients who suffer from stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, complex neurological disorders, orthopedic conditions, multiple trauma, amputation and other injuries or disorders that have impacted a patient’s functional or cognitive skills.

Upon completion, Mercy Health Behavioral Hospital will be Lifepoint Behavioral Health’s sixth joint-venture, standalone behavioral health hospital nationally and first in the state of Ohio.