CHIPPEWA FALLS (WQOW) – Plans for a new behavioral health hospital in Chippewa Falls are moving forward.
The lot plans for Rogers Behavioral Health to build a new hospital were approved by the Chippewa Falls city council Tuesday night. The behavioral health hospital would be built on Highway 178 and Wissota Green Boulevard, along the Old Abe bike trail.
The plan is to provide mental health outpatient care, 14 beds for inpatient care, and 24 beds for longer-term residential treatment.
Rogers received $10 million from the state legislature through a bill from Republicans Sen. Jesse James and Rep. Clint Moses to build the hospital after the loss of behavioral health beds at HSHS Sacred Heart in Eau Claire.
“There just are not a lot of providers for behavioral health,” said Chippewa Falls city planner Brad Hentschel. “And to have Rogers—who has a tremendous background of providing this throughout the upper Midwest—there was a level of comfort in speaking with the Rogers team that they really understand this component of health care.”
Since the plans are for a new hospital, Rogers now has to be approved by the Wisconsin department of health services before they can apply for building permits from the city.
According to the plans submitted to the Chippewa Falls planning commission, Rogers hopes to begin construction this spring and complete construction in the spring of 2027.
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