Durham, NC
Duke Regional Hospital Behavioral Health Center of Excellence
In partnership with Perkins&Will
Duke Health’s behavioral health services were collocated into a state-of-the-art hospital that provides a continuum of care to patients who may otherwise fall between the gap of inpatient and outpatient care. This facility is a modern, new home for Duke Health’s first Health Center of Excellence.
As the home of the Duke University School of Medicine’s Behavioral Health Residency Program, supervisors can observe and/or record sessions for ongoing training and residents can move efficiently between programs. An Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) procedure suite, connected to Duke’s groundbreaking ECT research, offers inpatient and outpatient treatment in a safe, secure, and dignified environment. Activity spaces and treatment areas are accentuated while nurse care stations are minimized to reduce the feeling of being scrutinized.
The Duke Regional Hospital Addition includes the renovation and expansion of the existing Emergency Department alongside an efficient and modern new home for Duke’s first Behavioral Health Center of Excellence. The behavioral health services accommodated in the new building program include 42 Inpatient beds, an 18-bed dedicated Behavioral Health Emergency Department, including a 6-bed dedicated pediatric suite, an ECT procedure suite and a 20,000 square foot Behavioral Health Outpatient Clinic. The adjacency of these services creates a consistent environment to support patients through many stages of healing. The Emergency Department renovation and expansion is an effort to right-size the facility to accommodate future volumes and rising standards of care.
A key part of the process was the operational programming of the new Psychiatric Emergency Department. The team worked with Duke Health to aggregate and analyze throughput data for the previous several years, generate projections for future capacity needs and ultimately determine the size and program for the new department.
Design decisions were also driven by a critical analysis of whether the Psychiatric Emergency Department would be staffed by ED staff or Psychiatry staff. human eXperience worked with the client on all aspects of those decisions prior to space planning.
The inpatient unit also required a careful analysis of the treatment paradigm and program design, leading to a decision to break the program into two units each with three sub-clusters so the hospital can accommodate a wide range of diagnoses.
Other elements of the program were carefully considered under hX’s leadership to ensure the program was clearly defined, leading to effective and timely design decisions to support the ultimate goals of the hospital and the Health System.
As the home of the Duke University School of Medicine’s Behavioral Health Residency Program, supervisors can observe and/or record sessions for ongoing training and residents can move efficiently between programs. An Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) procedure suite, connected to Duke’s groundbreaking ECT research, offers inpatient and outpatient treatment in a safe, secure, and dignified environment. Activity spaces and treatment areas are accentuated while nurse care stations are minimized to reduce the feeling of being scrutinized.
The Duke Regional Hospital Addition includes the renovation and expansion of the existing Emergency Department alongside an efficient and modern new home for Duke’s first Behavioral Health Center of Excellence. The behavioral health services accommodated in the new building program include 42 Inpatient beds, an 18-bed dedicated Behavioral Health Emergency Department, including a 6-bed dedicated pediatric suite, an ECT procedure suite and a 20,000 square foot Behavioral Health Outpatient Clinic. The adjacency of these services creates a consistent environment to support patients through many stages of healing. The Emergency Department renovation and expansion is an effort to right-size the facility to accommodate future volumes and rising standards of care.
A key part of the process was the operational programming of the new Psychiatric Emergency Department. The team worked with Duke Health to aggregate and analyze throughput data for the previous several years, generate projections for future capacity needs and ultimately determine the size and program for the new department.
Design decisions were also driven by a critical analysis of whether the Psychiatric Emergency Department would be staffed by ED staff or Psychiatry staff. human eXperience worked with the client on all aspects of those decisions prior to space planning.
The inpatient unit also required a careful analysis of the treatment paradigm and program design, leading to a decision to break the program into two units each with three sub-clusters so the hospital can accommodate a wide range of diagnoses.
Other elements of the program were carefully considered under hX’s leadership to ensure the program was clearly defined, leading to effective and timely design decisions to support the ultimate goals of the hospital and the Health System.
Project Size: 220,000 SF
Completion: 2021
Completion: 2021
