The Prisma Health-Upstate Foundation has launched a community giving campaign in support of the new behavioral health hospital being built near Easley, the foundation announced May 6.
The Hope Forward campaign aims to invite community support to help the Prisma Health-Upstate Foundation meet its $38 million commitment toward the new behavioral health hospital’s total cost of $138 million.
The hospital has already received substantial support from the state through a $100 million one-time appropriation to the S.C. Department of Health and Human Services for the project.
Construction of the three-story, 112-bed facility began last May and is halfway to completion. The 46-acre campus at 4906 Old Easley Bridge Road near the intersection with S.C. Highway 153 in Easley is expected to open in March 2027.
The new hospital will replace Prisma’s 65-bed Marshall I. Pickens Hospital and will significantly expand access to inpatient behavioral health care for adults, adolescents and children.
The Hope Forward committee has already raised $4 million in private support thus far, which represents the largest amount the foundation has ever raised for behavioral health, according to a statement from the foundation announcing the public giving campaign.
“Mental health touches nearly every family in some way,” said Harriet Van Hale, co-chair for Prisma Health-Upstate Foundation’s Hope Forward Campaign Committee. “And as our Upstate community continues to grow, so does the need for accessible, compassionate behavioral health care.”
For more information or to contribute, visit prismahealthupstatefoundation.org/hopeforward.