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 video of the event. For more information, contact Southcoast Health Public Information Officer  Peter Cohenno at 508-973-5280.

(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.