Geisinger Behavioral Health Center Danville opens to patients
The 96-bed facility will provide care for adults, pediatric and adolescent patients with acute symptoms of behavioral health disorders such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, psychosis and posttraumatic stress disorder. This array of acute behavioral health services provides a level of care unparalleled in central Pennsylvania.
This is the second behavioral health center opened by Geisinger through a joint venture with Acadia Health. The first center opened in Moosic in August 2023.
“Geisinger Behavioral Health Center Danville will serve patients with mental health conditions and in an acute setting where they get an intensive treatment plan to help them recover and get back into the community to continue their treatment outside the hospital,” said Imad Melhem, M.D., Geisinger chair of psychiatry. “As a psychiatrist who spent my whole career serving underserved communities, seeing the investment that Geisinger has placed in behavioral health and opening services in our areas couldn't be more rewarding.”
The center will allow Geisinger to consolidate inpatient behavioral health programs from Geisinger Medical Center and Geisinger Bloomsburg Hospital, providing additional capacity to expand medical care availability at those hospitals.
It will also serve as a teaching hospital, training students and residents from Geisinger’s College of Health Sciences, many of whom will go on to practice in Pennsylvania and carry forth Geisinger’s mission to improve the health and well-being of the region.
“I feel this is the fulfillment of what Abigail Geisinger wanted us to do. She wanted to bring health care to our rural communities,” said Dawn Zieger, Geisinger vice president of behavioral health. “For the first time in central Pennsylvania, we’ll be able to offer mental health care in Danville so adults and children can stay in their communities, where they’re connected to their families and support systems. This is a place you'd be proud to stay yourself or send a family member. It really honors patients when they're in probably the worst crisis of their life.”
The total facility investment for the behavioral health center was $49 million.
About Geisinger
Geisinger is among the nation’s leading providers of value-based care, serving 1.2 million people in urban and rural communities across central and northeastern Pennsylvania. Founded in 1915 by philanthropist Abigail Geisinger, the nonprofit system generates more than $8 billion in annual revenues across 163 care sites — including 10 hospital campuses — and Geisinger Health Plan, with more than half a million members in commercial and government plans. Geisinger College of Health Sciences educates more than 500 medical professionals annually and is conducting more than 1,400 clinical research studies. With more than 27,000 employees, including 1,800 employed physicians and 5,200 registered nurses, Geisinger is among Pennsylvania’s largest employers, having an estimated economic impact of $16.8 billion on the state’s economy. In 2024, Geisinger joined Risant Health, a nonprofit charitable organization created to expand and accelerate value-based care across the country. Learn more at geisinger.org or follow on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
