Groundbreaking held for Bethea’s $23 million facility
From Staff Reports
Bethea Retirement Community in Darlington last week broke ground on a $23 million, 60,000-square-foot health care and rehabilitation facility.
The project, to be completed in the fall of 2020, is “a pivotal moment, a life-changing event, in the future of every resident and staff (member) of Bethea,” said Tom Turner, CEO and president of the S.C. Baptist Ministries of Aging. Bethea is a ministry of that group.
Bethea held a groundbreaking ceremony Aug. 27 on the project.
The facility, when complete, will encompass 88 private rooms, 22 of them for short-term care and 66 for long-term care.
Also included will be a rehab therapy gym (3,000 square feet), a primary care office (1,500 square feet), screened porches and an ice-cream parlor. The design will allow private living for residents who have previously had semi-private rooms.
The design features four “households,” groups of 22 residential rooms; each “household” is to have a kitchen and recreation area.
Bethea Retirement Community is the only Southern Baptist-affiliated retirement community in the Pee Dee region of South Carolina, according to its website: “At Bethea, retirement living is an opportunity to live abundantly as residents discover new ways to serve Christ and others with purpose.”
