By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com

EASLEY — Prisma Health plans to build a new $138 million inpatient behavioral health hospital in Pickens County that it says will take a significant step forward in addressing the region’s growing need for enhanced access to cutting-edge behavioral health services.

Prisma officials hope to begin site work in spring 2025, pending certificate of need approval. Construction is expected to take approximately two years.

According to a news release, the hospital will be supported with $100 million in state funds appropriated to the S.C. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) by the state’s General

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