E02 - Integrating Vision and Research: The Design of a State-of-the-Art Eating Disorder Unit
- Room: 1
- Session Number:E02
Sunday, October 24, 2021: 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
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Description
Visioning care through design in the renovation of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset resulted in leadership’s identification of the need to transform the first floor West Wing into a state-of-the-art inpatient unit for their nationally recognized eating disorders program. This session will share outcomes from in-depth collaborative sessions with leadership, staff, and the design team, resulting in the mission and principles for their new eating disorder unit. Learn about the unique challenges in designing for eating disorders as well as addressing the separation of commingled adolescents and adults into separate areas, while offering a well-planned, welcoming, comforting, and safe behavioral health environment that supports state-of-the art treatment.
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Learning Objectives
• Observe how the design team generated a system of overlays to evaluate planning and design options that supported and reinforced the core principles and missions.
• Apply principles of biophilia, circadian controlled lighting, and connection to nature to design supportive to the therapeutic process for eating disorders and mental health.
• Learn about patient safety, anti-ligature, and self-harm prevention methods and ways to design a warm, comforting healing environment while maintaining FGI requirements.
• See how a well-planned eating disorder unit can maintain a balance of open/closed, public/private, patients/staff, with open inviting spaces that promote patient and staff safety.
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