New behavioral health hospital opens in Mass.

Valley Springs Behavioral Health Hospital opened its doors late this summer to treat children, adolescent, and adult patients with addiction and other mental and behavioral health issues.
Costing $72 million, the more than 22,000 square foot facility is furnished with 150 private and semi-private rooms along with clinical spaces, community areas, outdoor courtyards, and rooms for art therapy and occupational therapy.
Valley Springs operates in partnership with Baystate Health and Tennessee-based Lifepoint Health.
Mark Keroack, M.D., MPH, president and CEO of Baystate Health, said there was good reason to build the facility in Holyoke, about two hours outside of Boston. Western Massachusetts was critically “under bedded.” Valley Springs gave...