Los Angeles, CA
UCLA Health Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital
A successful partnership with HOK and McCarthy and their talented team of designers and leaders.
The new UCLA Health Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital is a 119-bed psychiatric hospital designed to meet a variety of Mental Health treatment needs in the Los Angeles area. With units for adults, adolescents, eating disorder, and geriatric populations, the hospital will provide support for all aspects of the areas demographic needs.
The ground level of the project includes a High-Intensity Behavioral Health Emergency Center and a High Intensity Behavioral Health Extended Stabilization Center. One of the challenges with this design is that the state of California does not yet have a regulatory structure in place to allow for these services. Working with the client and state regulators, hX was able to help find a path forward that would meet the needs of the hospital and the community with a licensure that was viable.
The OOU (licensed in California as an Outpatient Observation Unit (OOU)), has separate areas for adults and adolescents. Each space has a combination of single patient observation rooms and multi-patient observation rooms to address the wide variety of needs seen in the community. With full-time on-site hospitalists and medical ancillary support departments, ambulatory level of care for non-emergent medical issues can be provided. This allows the facility to provide no-barrier crisis stabilization by avoiding unnecessary Emergency Department visits.
The adjacent Short Stay Unit is intended to extend the crisis stabilization through beds and additional treatment space for those needing more than 24 hours of care. Licensed in CA as an inpatient unit, it is intended to be a bridge from the OOU to the inpatient floors above, with the goal of minimizing the stay in the hospital for those who can be stabilized and treated in lower levels of care.
The project also includes a dedicated Psychiatric Emergency Department, Imaging, Lab, Pharmacy, an Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) treatment suite, and associated academic and research spaces
The ground level of the project includes a High-Intensity Behavioral Health Emergency Center and a High Intensity Behavioral Health Extended Stabilization Center. One of the challenges with this design is that the state of California does not yet have a regulatory structure in place to allow for these services. Working with the client and state regulators, hX was able to help find a path forward that would meet the needs of the hospital and the community with a licensure that was viable.
The OOU (licensed in California as an Outpatient Observation Unit (OOU)), has separate areas for adults and adolescents. Each space has a combination of single patient observation rooms and multi-patient observation rooms to address the wide variety of needs seen in the community. With full-time on-site hospitalists and medical ancillary support departments, ambulatory level of care for non-emergent medical issues can be provided. This allows the facility to provide no-barrier crisis stabilization by avoiding unnecessary Emergency Department visits.
The adjacent Short Stay Unit is intended to extend the crisis stabilization through beds and additional treatment space for those needing more than 24 hours of care. Licensed in CA as an inpatient unit, it is intended to be a bridge from the OOU to the inpatient floors above, with the goal of minimizing the stay in the hospital for those who can be stabilized and treated in lower levels of care.
The project also includes a dedicated Psychiatric Emergency Department, Imaging, Lab, Pharmacy, an Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) treatment suite, and associated academic and research spaces
Project Size: 160,000 SF
Completion: 2025
Completion: 2025
