Good behavior: UT HSC unveils $125 million behavioral health campus

​​​HOUSTON – The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and the Texas State Health and Human Services Commission have unveiled plans for development of the UTHealth Continuum of Care Campus for Behavioral Health. 

Located at 5601 W. Leland Anderson St., the facility will cost $125 million and be adjacent to the UTHealth Harris County Psychiatric Center.

Construction will begin in summer 2019 and will be financed by state funds approved by the 2017 Legislative Budget Board and Texas Governor Greg Abbott. 

Once complete, the campus will be the largest academic psychiatric hospital in the United States and the first public mental health hospital built in Houston in more than 30 years.

Perkins+Will is the architect of record. Vaughn Construction is the general contractor.