Bowen Health begins work on new transitional living campus
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Bowen Health broke ground Wednesday on the first phase of a transitional living campus in Warsaw designed to help people with mental illness live independently.
The first phase of the $12 million campus at 3090 Frontage Road will feature a 10-patient short-term treatment facility, the nonprofit health system said. A planned second phase calls for two similar buildings, and a third phase would include a number of apartments.
The vision is “to build a centralized campus focused on assisting severely mentally ill people in Huntington, Kosciusko, Marshall, Wabash and Whitley to live independently in their communities,” Bowen Health CEO Robert Ryan said in a news release.
“We’re calling this project our Transitional Living Campus,” he said. “We picked the word campus because, unlike traditional group homes, the focus of these homes built on this property will be on building independence. This building is the first of three planned phases of construction. Each part will focus on graduating a resident from basic to intermediate to ready-to-launch skills.”
The timeline to complete the first phase and launch the subsequent phases is to be determined, a Bowen Health representative said. The addition of new hires is likely, though an estimated number was not given.
The new campus will assume providing some of the services now provided at Bowen Health locations in Kosciusko and Marshall counties, the organization said. The health system has locations in eight other Indiana counties.
“In this space, patients will have the opportunity to heal, physically, emotionally, and mentally,” Marci Wicks, Bowen Health’s director of transitional living said. “This space will provide the care, support, and resources they need to recover and rebuild their lives. It represents growth, progress, and the promise of new opportunities.”