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Description
The Psychiatric Hospital and Crisis Recovery Center on the Kino Community Hospital campus serve multiple educational and healthcare roles, consolidating resources, accommodating a new teaching program, and providing much-needed mental health services in appropriate settings. Conceived as a new wing of the existing hospital rather than a freestanding building, the Psychiatric Hospital links directly at grade to the hospital’s emergency department and increases the hospital’s total behavioral health bed count by more than 50%. Deep sun-protected recesses in upper levels provide outdoor terraces and shade primary circulation corridors while providing exterior views. Housing a crisis assessment unit, a crisis stabilization unit, and a sub-acute unit, the freestanding Crisis Recovery Center is organized around a central courtyard and features a bipartite circulation system separating public and staff and enabling secure movement of patients. A shared multifunction service court between the Psychiatric Hospital and the Crisis Recovery Center includes an ambulance dropoff and a secure sallyport with direct access to courtroom facilities.
Distinctions
- Behavioral Healthcare Magazine – Design Showcase
- Citation of Merit
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““A one-stop shop for behavioral healthcare—incorporating elements of acute treatment, crisis response, and inpatient care—the design nicely integrates interior and exterior presentation, with good separation of vehicular and internal traffic flow. The on-site courtroom works extremely well, limiting both the patient’s apprehension of being transported to and from judicial proceedings, and the overall risk factor placed upon the patients and the staff.
The contemporary style of the facility’s beautifully designed exterior is very appropriate for Arizona, as is its use of sustainable design elements, including the optimization of land with various levels, drought-resistant landscaping, and sun screens. The interior and exterior ‘fold into each other’ seamlessly, with the subtle but thorough incorporation of safety and security features throughout.”