Safe and Secure Healing Spaces
Patient areas include Mondo resilient sheet flooring with an Integral Cove Base, a rubber surface that is sound-absorbent, slip-resistant, comfortable, and easy to maintain. Installation of impact-resistant windows and ligature-resistant furniture and millwork ensures a secure and safe environment for patients.
Behavioral Health Appropriate Furniture and Fixtures
The behavioral health facility is equipped with tamper-proof MEP components and ligature-resistant features throughout. Examples within patient restrooms include recessed back-lit and impact-resistant mirrors, ligature-resistant door handles, soap dispensers, sink, and recessed hands-free flushometers.
Patient Safety and Security Detection and Alarms
Safety relative to patient room doors is ensured via alarm systems that detect weight and alert the adjacent nurse’s station.
Active and Occupied Behavioral Health Facility Remodel
Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU) and member intake office remodel was completed in a fully operational behavioral health facility. Loven Contracting project management and supervisory staff worked with stakeholders to develop patient and staff-centered phasing plans that facilitated unimpeded operations during construction.
Crisis Stabilization Unit Seclusion Room
The seclusion room includes a recessed, tunable white two-channel control LED fixture with a range of warm and cool colors appropriate for behavioral health facilities. In addition, the walls and floors utilize durable, seamless, and sound dampening safety padding. The easy-clean surface is resistant to mold growth, gouging, and scraping.
Safer Operations Through Purposeful Design
The reconfigured Crisis Stabilization Unit minimizes the distance between the staff and patients and optimizes behavioral health supervision.
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH FACILITY REMODEL
This is a remodel of an inpatient psychiatric hospital and behavioral health residential area to meet current demand and AZDHS requirements. All construction was completed while the facilities were active and fully occupied. These renovated facilities include exam rooms, dressing rooms, bedrooms, group and behavioral spaces, a reconfigured Crisis Stabilization Unit (CUS), member intake offices, administrative conference spaces, nurse stations, and a medicine dispensing office.
Contemporary Behavioral Health Facility
A contemporary behavioral health facility’s unique requirements include the required ligature-resistance upgrades, impact-resistant and scratch-resistant windows, door control reconfiguration, Mondo resilient sheet flooring within patient areas, and tamper-proof MEP components throughout. To ensure safety, patient rooms are equipped with alarm systems above the doors that detect weight and alert the adjacent nurse’s station.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Loven Contracting’s project management team strategized and enforced protocols to ensure crew and medical staff safety. This included daily schedule management and modifying the phasing plan based on the hospital’s limited intake and retainage procedures.
Photos: Emilio Ferrara
