March 10, 2023 – Centra and Lifepoint Behavioral Health, a business unit of Lifepoint Health, announced that they have entered into a joint venture partnership to build and operate a new inpatient behavioral health hospital in Lynchburg, Virginia.
The Centra Behavioral Health Hospital will be an approximately 75,000 square-foot, 72-bed hospital, providing inpatient services for adults struggling with mental health illnesses. This new facility 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.
Centra and Lifepoint Rehabilitation, another business unit of Lifepoint Health, announced a separate joint venture partnership last fall to construct a freestanding, 50-bed acute inpatient rehabilitation hospital. This hospital will treat 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.
Both hospitals will be located in Lynchburg on the Simon’s Run property Centra purchased in 2017. Together these two facilities will form a new specialty care medical campus. Pending customary regulatory approvals, construction for the inpatient rehabilitation facility is expected to begin in the spring of 2024 with an expected opening in 2025, and construction for the new behavioral health hospital is expected to begin in the summer of 2024 with an expected opening in 2025.