Lehigh Regional Medical Center is undergoing construction to provide mental health services by adding a new behavioral health center in its facility.
“Depression is a significant issue affecting the aging population,” CEO Gary Bell said. “Hopefully, we will help those people.”
“We’re going to dedicate an entire floor of the hospital for that purpose,” CEO Gary Bell said.
When the outpatient center is completed, it will have 35 beds and feature group therapy, art therapy, and drug and alcohol education. All the services will be provided specifically for people 55 and older.
“We believe there’s a significant need,” Bell said.
The plan is to have the center in Lehigh operational by December, and services are not limited to people in Lee County. The hospital said it will take patients from all over Southwest Florida and will also accept Medicare and Medicaid patients.
They will take people from all over Southwest Florida because most of the people in Lehigh Acres know enough to stay away from that place!!! It should be shut down, not expanded. Whoever allowed this should be thei first mental patient!
i got the impression from the headline, build not renovate….also most of the folks in lehigh are way younger, so to me it sounds like the hospital is a tad late…