Emergency Medicine

• Designing a No-Wrong-Door Mental Health Crisis Care Center

  July 14, 2026

  

  Huntsman Mental Health Institute pairs a no-wrong-door model with a “warm blanket” approach, creating a place for people in psychiatric crisis to pause, stabilize, and begin to heal.

• Whitehall’s Journey in Behavioral Health Design Innovation

  October 26, 2023

  

  We remain committed to learning from and collaborating with our customers and hope they’ll continue relying on our expertise, as well. Together we can achieve something remarkable in behavioral healthcare.

• Bob Biggio: Commitment to Community & Environment

  November 17, 2022

  

  Bob Biggio, Boston Medical Center’s Senior Vice President of Facilities & Support Services, discusses BMC’s $300 million campus redesign, as well as its new net-zero inpatient behavioral health facility and its commitment to the community and the environment.

• Mark L. Spies: Designing for Behavioral Health—It’s Not Just a Job

  March 21, 2022

  

  Mark Spies, a principal at Stengel Hill Architecture, talks about the role architecture and design play in mental health and its positive impact on patients, staff, and designers.

• Scott Holmes: Human-Centered Design & Patient Safety in Behavioral Healthcare

  March 16, 2021

  

  When confined by a limited budget, behavioral healthcare facilities often make compromises on design. BWBR’s Human-Centered Safety® approach is not only designed to speed recovery while keeping all parties safe, but also to ensure that small budgets don’t result in less than satisfactory outcomes.

• Michele Cohen: Making Emergency Mental Healthcare Safe & Welcoming

  December 4, 2020

  

  Read our interview with Michele Cohen, principal at NORR, and get her take on addressing the design challenges brought on by the rise of patients presenting with mental health issues at hospital Emergency Departments.

• Ligature-Resistant Products’ Role in Emergency Rooms

  June 16, 2014

  

  An alarming problem is spreading in many communities across the United States. Hospital emergency rooms are seeing a rise in the number of persons under mental distress being admitted, and they are not equipped to deal with them properly.