18 HEALTH • November 30, 2015
PHOTO/EDD COTE
Michael Krupa, CEO of Winchester-based Health
Partners New England, poses for a portrait at the
site of his company's planned inpatient psychiatric
hospital in Devens. The freestanding facility is
expected to open next September.
Drug crisis, push for parity boosting behavioral
health beds \\ By Emily Micucci
NEW INVENTORY,
NEW HOPE?
O
n a seven-acre plot of land in Devens, a Winchester-based behavioral health con-
sulting company is in midst of building a 104-bed inpatient facility for people
with mental and behavioral health disorders.
Attracted by Devens' streamlined permitting process and a friendly set of
neighbors who don't mind seeing such a facility built nearby, Health Partners New England
