NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Trident Health mentioned it would open Live Oak Mental Health and Wellness, a brand new 60-bed behavioral well being hospital, in North Charleston in June.

Live Oak Mental Hospital and Wellness would be the first behavioral well being hospital inbuilt South Carolina in additional than 30 years.

Construction of the area is nicely underway and anticipated to open in June 2023.

Leaders say the hospital is a response to the Lowcountry’s psychological well being care system the place the necessity for service is outpacing the power the take care of sufferers.

According to Trident Medical, in Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester Counties, practically 5 % of all hospital admissions are psychological well being associated.

“When Live Oak Mental Health and Wellness opens one of the largest frustrations of any emergency physician is going to be relieved. We are so often seeing patients who need psychiatric care, and we don’t have enough places for us to refer the patients,” Trident Medical Center ER doctor Kenneth Perry, MD, mentioned.

“It’s really going to help our community and it’s going to help our patients,” Perry completed.

Live Oak Mental Hospital and Wellness will present each inpatient and outpatient companies to adults, the aged, and adolescents.

The $30.4 million, 60-bed facility is situated at 3445 Ingleside Blvd. It is anticipated to open in June of this 12 months.