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STUDENT SUCCESS
HEALTHCARE DESIGN STUDENT AWARD Samia Mansour, of San Marcos, California, and Juhyun So, of Overland Park – architecture students in Hui Cai’s Health and Wellness Design Capstone Studio – were awarded a 2020 Healthcare Environment Award in the student Graduate Project category. Their project, “NOLA Behavioral Health Inpatient Facility,” is a proposed 48-bed behavioral health hospital adjacent to the University Medical Center in New Orleans that provides a home base to offer a full range of behavioral health services. The students’ research revealed a high concentration of behavioral health issues for all age groups in New Orleans, with each group having its own behavioral health concerns. Moreover, a high percentage of the homeless population in the area suffer from behavioral issues, such as substance abuse. The project addresses the needs across underserved user groups by providing three 16-bed inpatient units (geriatric, adult, adolescent), an outpatient behavioral health service for working parents and adolescents in school, and a homeless rehabilitation center. It integrates nature, music, arts, nutrition, and physical activities in the holistic healing process for mental health recovery.
