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Get the latest trends, tools, and resources for improving healthcare environments here. Browse our many free and members-only resources, including research reports and issue briefs, interviews, case studies, design strategies, lessons learned, key point summaries, and webinars.
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    Behavioral Health Crisis Stabilization Unit: A Solution to an Overcrowded ED
    July 2019 ∘ Webinar ∘
    This webinar will examine the Behavioral Health Crisis Stabilization Unit as a case study, including direct outcomes achieved by the project. Since opening, the unit has had a positive effect on the ED, lessening mental health patients in the ED and decreasing the psychiatric inpatient admission rates for patients.
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    Comprehensive Test Methods for Products in Behavioral Health Environments at the Design in Mental Health Network

    July 2019 ∘ Webinar ∘
    This webinar will discuss some of the common challenges witnessed and used to develop the testing methods – with a focus on ligature performance and robustness.  Hear about their learnings about doors and windows which feature so highly with sentinel events that they needed their own category of testing.   Review key areas of risk within mental health environments and lessons learned about managing risk in reality.    
    Webinar

    Safety for All: Keeping Patients and Staff Safe in Behavioral Health Environments

    June 2019 ∘ Webinar ∘
    This webinar will review two case studies of built behavioral health areas within existing emergency department. We will provide an in-depth look at the materials, products and systems developed to provide safe and durable environments with special attention given to anti- ligature and durability.
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    Realizing the Benefits of a Human-Centered Approach in Behavioral Health
    June 2019 ∘ Webinar ∘
    This webinar explores the strategies and cost implications of a human-centered approach to design that leverages tangible and intangible elements to strengthen staff-patient connections, facilitate innovations, and create a safer place for behavioral health care.
    Issue Brief

    Healthcare at Home: A White Paper
    April 2019 ∘ Issue Brief ∘
    A White Paper Supporting the Healthcare at Home Interactive Design Diagrams  
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    Behavioral Health Behind Closed Doors
    December 2018 ∘ Webinar ∘
    This webinar explores how MedStar Health is using fast-track design to help catalyze a new model of behavioral health, using the reduction of barriers, small house concepts and interior design strategies to create positive environments where patients are positively impacted. 
    Executive Summary

    Safety Risk Assessment: The Center for Health Design Toolkit - Risk Components
    July 2018 ∘ Executive Summary ∘
    This summary compiles the executive summaries of six Safety Risk Assessment Issue Briefs to provide a high-level overview of the latent conditions of the built environment and their related design categories found in the CHD SRA toolkit.
    Webinar

    The Medical Behavioral Unit: Enhancing Patient Safety and Experience Through Design
    June 2018 ∘ Webinar ∘
    This webinar explores how the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia pursued a vision to develop a new pediatric patient care unit: one that would meet the requirements and licensure of an acute care unit, but would provide a safe and supportive environment for patients with a comorbid developmental, behavioral, or psychiatric diagnosis. 
    Interview

    The Design of a Psychiatric Clinic in Borås Sweden Strives to Create a "Healing" Environment, an interview with Stefan Lundin and Cristiana Caira
    February 2018 ∘ Interview ∘
    Learn about how the design of a new psychiatric facility strives to normalize mental illness through carefully chosen materials with the goal of creating a “homey,” non-institutional setting, why private patient rooms will be included in the new final building as an important part of the design concept, and how research helped shape the architects’ beliefs that the built environment should support patients’ dignity and independence as part of the recovery process.
    Webinar

    Safety Risk Assessment 2.0
    January 2018 ∘ Webinar ∘
    This webinar introduces the new, easier to use, online interface for The Center’s Safety Risk Assessment (SRA) toolkit, a proactive and systematic approach to designing and renovating healthcare facilities for safety. Originally developed through research and consensus to support the requirements of the FGI Guidelines, The Center's research team will walk you through the why, what, and how of each part of the online SRA toolkit illustrating features with vignettes gathered from the testing process.  


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