LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. -- Lehigh Regional Medical Center is expanding with the goal of helping people in the community with mental health issues.
Construction is currently underway for the 35 bedroom Behavioral Health Unit which will be located on the 3rd floor.
“We want to be a part of the solution to what Southwest Florida needs, we are only an 88 bed hospital,” said Gary Bell, CEO, Lehigh Regional Medical Center.
It will be for patients 55 and older who suffer from emotional, social, and behavioral issues that effect the healthy function of daily lives.
It will offer 35 hours of active therapy a week. “This is a large unit, we have all the spaces necessary for individual therapy, group therapy, art recreation, we have all the things we need for inpatient psychiatric unit,” said Gary Bell, CEO, Lehigh Regional Medical Center.
The $4 million dollar behavioral unit addition is expected to be complete December 2019.
