With an increasing demand for psychiatric care in eastern Pasco County, Acadia Healthcare’s North Tampa Behavorial Health (NTBH) on S.R. 56, less than two miles east of the Shops of Wiregrass mall, is expanding and will add a two-story unit housing 48 additional beds by the end of this year, CEO Jameson Norton told members of the Greater Wesley Chapel Chamber of Commerce (WCCC) at an Economic Development Council briefing on Jan. 28.
Florida ranks 49th in the U.S. in per capita mental health services expenditures, Norton said. The $9-10-million expansion (which will increase NTBH’s site from its current 53,000-sq.-ft. to 80,000) will bring the total number of beds at NTBH to 123, and is expected to bring approximately 50 new jobs to the area.
Norton, who became CEO of NTBH in June of 2015, said his adults-only facility, which is the only one in eastern Pasco that accepts Baker Act patients (who are either emergency room or involuntarily admitted for psychiatric evaluation) and the only one in all of Pasco accepting Marchman Act patients (which allows for the involuntary or voluntary assessment and stabilization of a person allegedly abusing substances like drugs or alcohol), is growing to meet that need and also is planning to expand its services for military veterans.
Many of the new rooms at NTBH will be earmarked for treatment of veterans.
“There’s a lot of need in the veterans community,’’ said Norton, himself a retired U.S. Marine Captain.
The groundbreaking for the new wing will be March 1, with an expected completion date of December 30 of this year, Norton said.
For more information about North Tampa Behavioral Health (29910 S.R. 56), visit NorthTampaBehavioralHealth.com or call (877) 297-2192.
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