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Sedgwick County breaks ground on $100 million psychiatric hospital; four-part behavioral health plan underway
Summary
Commissioner Ryan Beatty said state and county officials marked the April 9 groundbreaking of a $100 million, 104‑bed psychiatric hospital in south Wichita, part of a four-project plan intended to reduce jail and hospital pressure and expand behavioral health services.
Sedgwick County Commissioner Ryan Beatty said April 9 that county and state leaders held the official groundbreaking for a $100,000,000, 104‑bed psychiatric hospital being built just off McArthur and Meridian in south Wichita.
The facility, Beatty said, will reserve half its beds for people in the criminal justice system who need court‑ordered psychiatric evaluations and half for patients requiring acute psychiatric care. "This moment marks a milestone, not just in a construction project, but in a broader effort that has been years in the making," Beatty said.
Beatty said the hospital is intended to relieve pressure on the county jail and local hospitals. He said Sedgwick County at times…
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