Plans Announced for $138M Inpatient Behavioral Health Hospital in South Carolina

Prisma Health plans to build a new $138-million inpatient behavioral health hospital in the Upstate region of South Carolina, addressing a growing need for enhanced access to behavioral health services. Site work is expected to begin in spring 2025, pending Certificate of Need approval. Construction should take approximately two years.

The hospital will be supported with $100 million in state funds. The three-story behavioral health hospital is slated to be built on 46 acres at the corner of U.S. 123 and S.C. 153 in Pickens County. The 132,430-square-foot facility will be licensed for 112 beds that will replace Prisma Health’s 65-bed Marshall I. Pickens Psychiatric hospital located on the Greenville Memorial Hospital campus.

As the only inpatient behavioral health facility in the Upstate to treat children, the number of child and adolescent beds will increase from 10 to 40 with the remaining 72 beds licensed for adults. This new facility will significantly improve the patient experience with designs that provide a more healing, nurturing environment.

Rendering source: prismahealth.org