February 10, 2012 News release
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Whittier Street Health Center has publicly unveiled its new six-story, 79,000 square foot green building in Roxbury, Mass. The new health and wellness facility provides expanded capacity for the Center to continue its mission of providing high quality and cost effective healthcare.
January 27, 2012 News release
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Rogers Memorial Hospital announces the upcoming ribbon cutting of a pair of new facilities, continuing the organization's emphasis on patient experiences and meeting the highest standards of quality in behavioral health treatment.
October 30, 2011 Jonathan F. Douglas, AIA
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Story-based narratives helped the Department of Veterans Affairs plan and design inpatient and outpatient improvements at the VA hospital in Bay Pines, Fla.
October 4, 2011 Rick Wessling, AIA
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It seems simple. Your organization's business plan should be in sync with your master plan, which guides your buildings, renovations, and expansions. But many health providers fail to realize how vital the connection between the two can be. Aligning your buildings with your business can spell success; having a disconnect between them can be disastrous.
July 19, 2011 Roger Verdon
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In 2003, The Menninger Clinic, a psychiatric organization with deep roots in Topeka, Kan., left its home of nearly 80 years and relocated to Houston. But the 14-acre campus was always meant to be temporary. In fact, plans for a “Mental Health Epicenter” began in earnest in 2007 with the help of a $25 million donation. A new location was chosen, land was purchased and architectural plans were drawn up.
May 25, 2011 Dennis G. Grantham, Editor-in-Chief
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An award-winning behavioral health facility design, like an outstanding advance in clinical knowledge, reflects elegant thinking and design.
May 25, 2011 Compiled by BH staff
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For the third year, Behavioral Healthcare invited design firms and provider organizations to submit innovative building projects for review in our annual Design for Health and Human Services Showcase.
May 25, 2011 Karen M. Mahar, MA, LEED AP
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Two years ago, Camillus House in Miami, Fla., was ready to break ground on a new seven-building campus designed to hold 340 beds for short-term housing, residential treatment, medical respite, and permanent, low-demand housing for persons with severe mental illness, addiction, and/or serious medical disabilities.
May 25, 2011 Terry Hatcher, PE and Timothy F. Winstead, AIA LEED AP
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During the late 1990s, in the midst of planning a single project to replace one of four psychiatric hospitals operated by the State of North Carolina, an ambitious idea emerged.
December 3, 2010 News release
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As new products have become available to assist psychiatric and addiction treatment facilities in improving safety, the authors of a highly regarded reference guide on the built environment in behavioral health facilities have issued an update (4.1) edition of this online resource.
May 23, 2010
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Award winning designs for behavioral health facilities across teh United States
April 30, 2010 Behavioral Healthcare staff
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Highlighting innovative architecture and design in behavioral health facilities
