The Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute (PPI) will be relocating its inpatient services to the Holy Spirit Medical Center in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, in September 2026. The move comes after Penn State Health, which assumed 100% governance control of PPI last year, was unable to secure a new lease with UPMC, the current leaseholder of PPI's existing location at 2501 North Third Street in Harrisburg.
According to Penn State Health, the decision to relocate was made to ensure the continuation of essential behavioral health services in central Pennsylvania. Kim Feeman, president of PPI, stated that the institute is committed to making the transition as seamless as possible to minimize disruption of care and services for patients, their families, clinicians, staff, educators, students, and researchers.
The relocation process will begin later this month with renovations to the third and fourth floors at Holy Spirit Medical Center. Penn State Health is also working on a plan to retain all employees and transition some of the hospital’s medical and surgical services to the nearby Hampden Medical Center.
Kyle Snyder, president of Hampden and Holy Spirit medical centers, assured that all important behavioral health services currently delivered in Cumberland County will continue. He added that combining these services with PPI will create an even greater impact for the communities, leveraging the benefits of their integrated academic health system to offer the best possible behavioral health care across central Pennsylvania.
PPI outpatient psychiatry and therapy services and the Advances in Recovery clinic will continue to operate at their current locations in Harrisburg until the end of the lease in September 2026. Penn State Health is working to identify a new location for these services near the present site.