Transforming Behavioral Health
Healthcare is changing rapidly, perhaps most notably in the realm of behavioral health. Clinical breakthroughs have reshaped how providers treat and care for patients—and as innovators in healthcare design, we are dedicated to exploring how healthcare facility design supports a new paradigm of patient-centered care focused on treating the whole person.
Increasing Access to Excellent Care
Behavioral Health Teaching Facility
In support of the Washington State legislature’s unanimously-passed bill to improve access and resources to mental healthcare, the University of Washington’s Behavioral Health Teaching Facility was designed to provide an innovative model of care that addresses both physical and mental health as well as integral teaching and training space. The design establishes a replicable prototype of a behavioral health inpatient floor with open environments, flexible patient distribution, shared treatment spaces, and access to nature and daylight—not only serving the Behavioral Health Teaching Facility, but future behavioral health inpatient facilities to follow, helping to alleviate the current shortage and supporting the next generation of Washington’s caregivers.
Transforming Behavioral Health Treatment in America
This interview with SRG Design Principals Carl Hampson and Pierce McVey explores the history and evolution of behavioral health in the United States—and how this shift towards holistic and integrated care has begun to bleed into the design of the mental health clinics we see today and of the healthcare facilities we want to see in the future.
A New Era of Psychiatric Care
Salem Psychiatric Hospital Replacement
Prior to its replacement, the Salem Psychiatric Hospital was the one of the oldest continuously operating mental health treatment centers, having opened its doors in 1883. The institutional look and feel of the aging facility (which served as the film location for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) was transformed into a state-of-the-art health and treatment campus that increased access to care with the capacity to serve up to 554 patients at a time; connected their patients to nature with 22 outdoor courtyards; and improved the stigma of mental health and its care facilities in the State of Oregon.