An inpatient mental health treatment facility in Kennewick that has sat dormant since being built five years ago is finally opening its doors.

Aristo Healthcare confirmed to the Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business that it will open its New Hopes Kennewick facility at 7319 W. Hood Place on Nov. 17. The 32-bed facility is expected to have between 30 to 35 staff members. Aristo is currently hiring to staff up the clinic.

“This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working with people, wants to make a difference in behavioral health, and would like to be part of a new program from the beginning,” according to an Indeed job listing for a behavioral health technician at New Hopes. Help wanted ads for registered and licensed practical nurses also were posted in early November.

The Seattle-based healthcare provider paid $5.5 million in July 2025 for the facility, which was built by Salt Lake City-based Sana Behavioral Health in 2021 for $10.25 million for a similar purpose – but Sana never opened it.

Aristo Healthcare received two grants in 2022 totaling $5 million from the state Department of Commerce as part of a five-year plan to modernize and transform mental health services in the state and relieve capacity issues at the state’s two large mental health hospitals. The healthcare provider at the time said it intended to build its own facility, calling it Tri-City Nueva Esperanza.

The vacant 16,518-square-foot, single-story building behind the Tri-Cities Cancer Center was initially designed to provide inpatient psychiatric care to seniors, though that would not have included dementia care.

Aristo plans to operate two separate 16-bed units within the facility. The long-term civil commitment portion will house involuntary patients who require continued psychiatric treatment and stabilization in a secure, structured setting. The inpatient behavioral health treatment facility will serve voluntary patients with structured behavioral health treatment, stabilization and support.

Aristo is already operating a 16-bed intensive behavioral health facility in Renton, which received a $1.96 million grant from Commerce in 2020.

Lourdes Behavioral Health in Richland, part of Pasco-based Lourdes Health, is the only other inpatient mental health facility in the Tri-Cities and has 32 beds.

Columbia Valley Center for Recovery, which opened earlier this year, offers inpatient substance abuse and detox services.