Behavioral Health Crisis Units

Confidential Client

Tulsa, Oklahoma

SIZE

86,400 sq. ft.

150 beds

COST

Confidential

COMPLETION DATE

2024 est.

SERVICES

Architecture, Interior Design

Providing therapeutic emergency environments designed for crisis mental healthcare leads to rapid improvement and decreased need for inpatient care. ED patients are often boarded without treatment for long hours awaiting inpatient beds when prompt, appropriate care would result in discharge for most affected individual.

While the healthcare industry is continuously adapting to modern practices, increased patient volume and systemic change have created a crisis for emergency departments and those suffering from emergent mental illnesses.

Emergency environments designed for crisis mental healthcare result in rapid improvement and a decreased need for inpatient care. With patient care and organization at the forefront of design, this master plan elevates a 90-bed inpatient facility to a 150-bed behavioral health campus to meet the developing need for innovative urgent psychiatric care.

The existing administration building received a renovation to accommodate new models of care. The new campus provides four 15-bed units that accommodate growth as patient volume increases. The campus is divided into several parts: the intake building, which includes a behavioral health crisis stabilization unit and a clinical assessment department. The intake building is renovated and expanded to improve admission flow.

The behavioral health crisis stabilization unit supplies compassionate care for psychiatric emergencies. It helps contain most crises in less than 24 hours while improving general emergency department capacity and length of stay.

Elements that improve overall patient care and site logistics include inpatient care, materials management, art therapy, a fitness center, a kitchen, staff and inpatient dining.

In addition, the vehicular sally-port supports patient security and provides privacy, while the new, on-site staff parking garage creates more patient/visitor parking for the outpatient clinic.

As part of a continuum of care between an acute setting and psychiatric inpatient care, HOK’s creative and strategic design solved an emerging healthcare issue affecting hospitals nationwide while also upholding the best patient care.

Behavioral Health Crisis Units

Appropriate emergency department utilization and focusing on care of those in actual need of emergency care has been a systematic problem for many years. Increasing volume of emergency departments (ED) presentations for urgent psychiatric care has brought real pressures to ED operations and challenging populations to patient caseloads. This combination of systemic change in care models coupled with an increased volume has created a crisis for both emergency departments and for the care of those suffering from emergent mental illness.

Providing therapeutic emergency environments designed for crisis mental healthcare leads to rapid improvement and decreased need for inpatient care. ED patients are often boarded without treatment for long hours awaiting inpatient beds when prompt, appropriate care would result in discharge for most affected individual. ED behavioral health crisis Stabilization units help to stabilize most crisis in less than 24 hours, improving general ED capacity, length of stay and throughput.