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Oct 14, 2020 · When designing a new mental health facility, you’re afforded the opportunity to create a fully tailored environment that responds to the unique needs for safety, privacy, and dignity of the facility’s caregivers and patients. Here are a few points to keep in mind.
Sep 12, 2018 · By incorporating comfortable seating, modular furnishings, soothing artwork, natural light, and the latest technologies in behavioral health facility design, you can increase patient comfort, better support patient well-being, and improve treatment outcomes.
Behavioral Health Design Guide Edition 7.4– November 2018 9 GENERAL COMMENTS Space Planning Considerations A. Behavioral health units and facilities should be designed to appear comfortable, attractive, and as residential in character as possible. The focus
Feb 18, 2020 · Here are four critical challenges patients who seek mental health treatment face—and how design can advance the patient experience.
Drawing on research into the delivery of mental health services and best-practice approaches to their architectural design, we outline a holistic conceptual model for designing mental health services that enhance treatment outcomes and experiences, provide benefits to families and the community, and promote community resilience.
Mar 12, 2020 · To help address this gap, we present evidence that highlights the pivotal role of evidence-based architectural design in service users’ experience of mental health services. We propose six important design principles to enhance the care of mental health service users.
To help organizations and designers create safe and welcoming behavioral health spaces, Steelcase Health synthesized their research into seven design principles that together form a multilayered strategy. 1. Design for physical safety. Identify the risk levels for each type of space and make appropriate design choices.
