Monica Robins has your first look inside the new MetroHealth Behavioral Health Hospital in Cleveland Heights:

3News is getting an exclusive look at an important new area hospital.

The pandemic shined a very bright spotlight on the increasing need for mental health care in Ohio and across the nation. The issue remains a lack of beds and a shortage of caregivers.

MetroHealth is set to open a new 112-bed Behavioral Health Hospital at its Cleveland Heights Medical Center next week. It couldn't happen at a more critical time.

3News Senior Health Correspondent Monica Robins was given an exclusive first look inside the new center from Executive Director Bev Lozar earlier this week.

"The original plans for the hospital started in 2019 after a study that showed this region was about 220 beds short of what we needed for behavioral health, so Metro planned this unit to fill about half of that gap," Lozar said. "But now, since then, we've had the closure of other units in the community such as St. Vincent's, and we'll be barely keeping even with the number of beds that the community has."

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