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Acadia
Healthcare and Southcoast Health
held a topping-off ceremony on December 18, 2014 to mark the completion of
the steel framing for the new $30 million behavioral health hospital on
Faunce Corner Road in Dartmouth, MA. "Today marks a major milestone
on the path...toward attaining the vital resources for an inpatient
behavioral health addiction services facility," stated Southcoast
Health CEO and President Keith Hovan. Mr. Hovan went on to introduce
Acadia CEO for the new facility, Dr.
William Parsons, and then Southcoast Health's Behavioral Health
Medical Director Dr. Douglas Munsey, New Bedford Inter-Church
Council Executive Minister Rev. David Lima, U.S. Congressman
William Keating, and State
Representative Patricia Haddad. Expected to open in the fall of 2015,
the 77,000 square foot facility will house five 20-bed units devoted to
geriatric, adult and adolescent psychiatry as well as substance abuse. Click
here for the Herald News article. Click
here for a 32-minute |
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(Top row, left) Over 100 people, including State Representative Paul Schmid, center, gathers in a tent on the grounds of the new facility. (Top row, center and right) Participants sign the topping off beam as Southcoast Health Vice President of Government Affairs Steve Canessa speaks with U.S. Congressman William Keating before the program. (Row two) Acadia CEO for the new facility, William Parsons, speaks after being introduced by Southcoast Health President and CEO Keith Hovan. (Row three, left) Mr. Hovan, Acadia Healthcare Division President James Duff, and Mr. Parsons sign the topping off beam. (Row three, center) A Christmas tree is hoisted to the top beam of the new structure. (Row three, right) Dartmouth Town Administrator David Cressman, Representative Steven Howitt, Congressman Keating, Mr. Hovan, Mr. Parsons, Representative Haddad, Representative Antonio Cabral, and Representative Paul Schmid pose for a photo. (Bottom row) Brasfield and Gorrie Project Superintendent Mike Mitchell points our different parts of the new facility including, left to right, patient rooms, entrance, and gymnasium. |
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