The Pavilion will be located at the former St. Luke’s Hospital campus in Bluefield, WV. The 95 bed Pavilion will include 75 adult and geriatric inpatient psychiatric beds and 20 beds for adolescent residential treatment. The Pavilion will also provide structured outpatient psychiatric services for an integrated continuum of behavioral health services care.
PCH currently operates a 24-bed psychiatric service on its Princeton campus. With the addition of the Behavioral Health Pavilion, the existing service will be relocated to the Bluefield campus.
“I am very excited about the opportunity to create a behavioral health facility of this magnitude associated with our organization,” said PCH CEO Wayne Griffith. “It will allow us to expand existing and offer much-needed new services to the people of southern West Virginia and the surrounding region.”
The development of the Behavioral Health Pavilion is a substantial investment in the Bluefield community that will bring over 100 new jobs to the area.
Renovations are scheduled to begin in the fall of 2008 and the Pavilion is projected to open in the spring of 2009. Princeton Community Hospital is partnering with Diamond Healthcare Corporation, a nationally recognized behavioral healthcare management and consulting company headquartered in Richmond, VA, and the Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry of West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia on this important project for Southern West Virginia residents.
For more information on the Princeton Pavilion contact Rick Shrum, SVP at Diamond, 800-649-9340. To set-up an interview contact Deborah Griffith, Director of Marketing & Public Relations at PCH, 304-487-7339.