Artist's rendering of the front of the MUSC Health Jean and Hugh K. Leatherman Behavioral Care Pavilion in Florence, South Carolina. A sketch shows several cars parked in front of a low building with a sweeping facade.

MUSC Health Jean and Hugh K. Leatherman Behavioral Care Pavilion

MUSC Health Jean & Hugh K. Leatherman Behavioral Care Pavilion

The innovative MUSC Health Leatherman Pavilion serves as a regional behavioral health center and includes a combination of triage, EmPATH (crisis stabilization), telehealth, outpatient, and inpatient services. The center occupies the site of an MUSC-owned property previously known as the Cedar Tower campus on East Cedar Street in Florence. The project was coordinated through an advisory committee convened by South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS).

MUSC Health Jean and Hugh K. Leatherman Behavioral Care Pavilion opens its doors at the end of August 2025, at 121 East Cedar Street in Florence, South Carolina. We look forward to welcoming patients to this new location.

MUSC Health Leatherman Pavilion Services & Features

The MUSC Health Leatherman Pavilion features will include:

  • A rapid access center to provide walk-in triage and assessment and offer transition to care.
  • Telepsychiatry services to strengthen access to psychiatric services throughout the region.
  • Sixteen adult and four adolescent beds for crisis services to rapidly stabilize patients.
  • Outpatient adult and pediatric behavioral health clinics.
  • A 63-bed inpatient psychiatric unit to treat patients needing more acute care, including the transfer of the 23 psychiatric hospital beds at the McLeod Behavioral Health Center in Darlington to the new facility.

The behavioral health center develops individualized treatment plans. Services and treatments include:

Services

  • Mental Health Services
  • Addiction Services
  • Therapy

Conditions Treated

  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Schizophrenia
  • Psychosis
  • OCD

Careers

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Topping Out

An steel beam with the American flag and the Palmetto flag placed atop the new Hugh K. Leatherman Behavioral Health Pavilion in Florence, SC.

Celebrating a milestone at MUSC Health Jean and Hugh K. Leatherman Behavioral Care Pavilion.

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Celebrating a Milestone

Topping Out: Celebrating a milestone at MUSC Health Behavioral Care Pavilion

Construction Progress

 

Partners

This project is made possible in collaboration with:

  • South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
  • SC Department of Mental Health
  • McLeod Health
  • HopeHealth
  • City of Florence, SC
  • Francis Marion University
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