Longleaf, a new partnership between Birmingham Recovery Center and LIV Ventures, has broken ground on a primary mental health facility in Hoover. The new facility, Longleaf Wellness Center, will be a partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient program with a capacity of 60 clients. The facility will be located next to Birmingham Recovery Center in the International Park off Acton Road.

Birmingham Recovery Center, an outpatient drug and alcohol addiction treatment program, opened its doors summer 2021 and quickly identified additional need for outpatient mental wellness services.

“Mental health and substance use disorder treatment options have been extremely limited in our state for too long,” said Thomas Harris, chairman of the Birmingham Recovery Center. According to Mental Health America’s 2022 State of Mental Health in America, Alabama ranked 50th out of 51 states on access.