By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com

EASLEY — As a psychiatrist and emergency physician, Dr. Karen Lommel said she sees firsthand “the devastation of untreated mental illness, but also the lifesaving value of access to the right treatment at the right time.”

The chair of psychiatry for Prisma Health in the Upstate, Lommel spoke Monday morning at the groundbreaking for Prisma Health’s behavioral health hospital, a $138 million facility being built at the intersection of S.C. Highway 153 and Old Easley Bridge

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