Construction to begin soon for new mental health facility in Yankton

YANKTON, S.D.(WNAX)- Construction will soon begin on a new home for Lewis & Clark Behavioral Health, based in Yankton.

Director, Dr Tom Stanage says they had a successful bid opening.

Total costs are around twenty five million dollars for the fifty thousand square foot building.

Stanage says the new facility will bring together all of their scattered services.

Stanage says they will be able to add badly needed services.

The City of Yankton donated some land on thirty first street to help move the project along.