Anchor Health Breaks Ground on Jefferson Regional Specialty Hospital

Anchor marked the commencement of a 76-bed, 85,000-square-foot inpatient rehabilitation and behavioral health hospital, to be known as Jefferson Regional Specialty Hospital, with a groundbreaking ceremony.

The facility will be located in White Hall, Arkansas and will offer 40 beds dedicated to inpatient rehabilitation services for adults who have experienced a loss of function or disability due to stroke, brain injury, spinal code injury, neurological disorders, orthopaedic surgery and other conditions. Featuring all private rooms, the rehabilitation section of the hospital will provide intense, interdisciplinary rehabilitation therapies and medical care to improve patients’ functional independence and help them return home.

Anchor is serving as development manager on this significant project. Lifepoint Rehabilitation and Lifepoint Behavioral Health, which are business units of Lifepoint Health, will operate the facility in partnership with Jefferson Regional.

Additionally, the hospital’s distinct behavioral unit will offer 36 beds focused on the continuum of inpatient and outpatient behavioral health services for adults and seniors, including crisis stabilization for acute mental health and substance use disorders; detoxification from alcohol and drugs; and treatment for anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and many other behavioral health illnesses.

Slated for completion in Dec. 2023, the project team includes Earl Swennson Associates and Brasfield & Gorrie.