Becker's Healthcare January 2, 2026
Paige Twenter

East Alabama Health, a two-hospital system based in Opelika, recently opened a freestanding, $44 million mental health facility with the state’s only long-term adolescent unit.

The 54,000-square-foot facility expanded the system’s space for outpatient mental health services and increased its number of inpatient psychiatry beds from 28 to 40, according to a Dec. 17 news release. The outpatient side of the facility began seeing patients in late December, and the inpatient units will open in mid-January.

The adult inpatient...

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