learning objectives

1 Identify strategies for risk mitigation through non-traditional behavioral health care models.

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Explore how building design, grounded in empathy-driven, process-led design, can promote a care model that is based on a human-centered approach to promote resiliency in patients throughout their journey to mental health. Understand the necessity to design for flexibility to maximize bed capacity in a time of fluctuations of census, age, gender, diagnosis and therapeutic milieu. Assess how fostering creativity, including the implementation of a comprehensive arts program, can benefit patient outcomes, staff pride, and user experience.

OUTDOOR DINING

BUILDING ENTRANCE

MEDICAL TOWER

PARKING GARAGE