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The Building as a Therapeutic Tool: Creating a Children’s Treatment Center

February 2020 ∘ Webinar ∘
This webinar highlights a case study of the ErinoakKids Centre for Treatment and Development and explores how the design caused the building itself to become a tool for therapy, learning, and teaching.

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Interactive Design Diagrams: Visually Translating and Linking Design Strategies with Healthcare Outcomes

February 2020 ∘ Webinar ∘
This webinar addresses the ongoing development of a set of interactive and visually engaging annotated diagrams that can help to improve patient, staff, organizational, and even community-wide outcomes within hospital, outpatient, clinical, and home-based environments.

Webinar

Telemedicine: Where We Are and Why the Built Environment Matters

January 2020 ∘ Webinar ∘
This webinar will cover the definitions and content in the new section of the Guidelines, along with the research and practice-based evidence to support these design approaches.

Webinar

Lighting Design for Behavioral Health Environments

October 2019 ∘ Webinar ∘
In this webinar, two lighting experts will address innovative behavioral health lighting design strategies, review case studies and current research, and offer how you can adapt lessons learned to provide friendlier environments for residents, staff and families.

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The OHSU Rood Family Pavilion: Serving Patients and Families in Difficult Times

September 2019 ∘ Webinar ∘
This webinar will share how this innovative housing facility, addressing both pediatric and adult families, became a reality through a unique partnership and financial model.

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The Incredible Shrinking Hospital: Down-sizing Plus-sized Medical Facilities

August 2019 ∘ Webinar ∘
This webinar will share case studies and lessons learned from new and emerging examples of care delivery, including microhospitals; virtual care centers; and innovative clinical care models that are more nimble, cost and operationally efficient, and respond more directly to patient expectations.

Webinar

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.

Webinar

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.

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VA Healing Environments and Research: Connection, Reflection, Introspection, Trust and Acceptance

July 2019 ∘ Webinar ∘
This webinar will provide an overview of this integrative platform for the healing of the mind, body and spirit of 9 million Veterans and their families.

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.

Slidecast

Isolation or Interaction: Healthcare Provider Experience of Design Change

April 2020 ∘ Slidecast ∘
Van Heuvelen, J.S. (2019). Isolation or Interaction: Healthcare Provider Experience of Design Change. Sociology of Health & Illness, 41(4), 692-708. While the role of the built environment is often overlooked in sociology, van Heuvelen examined the role of the environment as a mediator of organizational culture. This ethnographic study draws on sociology and an "inhabited institutionalist" theoretical framework to assess the staff experience of adjusting to the move from an open-bay to a single family room NICU. Findings show moving to the new SFR unit resulted in less time for discussion and personal support, resulting in a higher reliance on individual assessment skills. This was felt to undermine the culture of collaboration, but in other instances, the prior collaborative culture was transposed.

Webinar

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.

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.

Issue Brief

Design for Behavioral and Mental Health: More Than Just Safety

February 2018 ∘ Issue Brief ∘
As part of the Behavioral & Mental Health toolbox, in this issue brief you will learn about the prevalence of behavioral and mental health conditions as comorbidities; design strategies for promoting psychological wellness; and a systematic benefit analysis approach to meet the psychological needs of all.

EBD Journal Club

Does Space Matter? An Exploratory Study for a Child–Adolescent Mental Health Inpatient Unit

August 2017 ∘ EBD Journal Club ∘

Trzpuc, S. J., Wendt, K. A., Heitzman, S. C., Skemp, S., Thomas, D., & Dahl, R. (2016). Does space matter? An exploratory study for a child–adolescent mental health inpatient unit. HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 10(1), 23-44.

Tool

Ambulatory Care Center Design Tool

December 2015 ∘ Tool ∘
This Ambulatory Care Center Design Tool (ACCDT), developed by Dr. Anjali Joseph and Dr. Zahra Zamani from Clemson University in collaboration with The Center for Health Design (CHD), builds upon a series of papers, best practice case studies and in-depth literature reviews conducted by CHD as well as CHD's Clinic Design Post-Occupancy Evaluation Toolkit – Tool 2 Audit of Physical Environment with additions from a thesis by Crews (2013). The tool supports design teams in making key design decisions about ambulatory care centers linked to evidence based design goals and principles.

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The Building as a Therapeutic Tool: Creating a Children’s Treatment Center

Interactive Design Diagrams: Visually Translating and Linking Design Strategies with Healthcare Outcomes

Telemedicine: Where We Are and Why the Built Environment Matters

Lighting Design for Behavioral Health Environments

The OHSU Rood Family Pavilion: Serving Patients and Families in Difficult Times

The Incredible Shrinking Hospital: Down-sizing Plus-sized Medical Facilities

Behavioral Health Crisis Stabilization Unit: A Solution to an Overcrowded ED

Comprehensive Test Methods for Products in Behavioral Health Environments at the Design in Mental Health Network

VA Healing Environments and Research: Connection, Reflection, Introspection, Trust and Acceptance

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

Isolation or Interaction: Healthcare Provider Experience of Design Change

Behavioral Health Behind Closed Doors

The Design of a Psychiatric Clinic in Borås Sweden Strives to Create a "Healing" Environment, an interview with Stefan Lundin and Cristiana Caira

Design for Behavioral and Mental Health: More Than Just Safety

Does Space Matter? An Exploratory Study for a Child–Adolescent Mental Health Inpatient Unit

Ambulatory Care Center Design Tool

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