Mental Health Facilities Design Guide December 2010. Office of Construction 1-4. & Facilities Management. Foreword. The goal of the Design Guide is to facilitate the design process and to ensure. excellent quality, effectiveness, efficiency, and consistency of VA facilities while.
http://www.cfm.va.gov/til/dGuide/dgMH.pdf
Steward Health Care expanding psychiatric facilities. Steward Health Care System is spending millions to open new psychiatric units in its Massachusetts hospitals, filling a gap in mental health care and marking a reversal from the recent years in which hospitals had little interest in expanding these services.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/08/06/hospitals-expanding-psychiatric-units/FCKNHUP5thhG93ncAUaYeM/story.html
Partners HealthCare, one of the largest providers of psychiatric care in Massachusetts, is embarking on a significant expansion that includes adding 53 beds, mostly at McLean Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in Belmont, and at a planned mental health facility in Lynn.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/08/06/hospitals-expanding-psychiatric-units/FCKNHUP5thhG93ncAUaYeM/story.html
Combined, these hospitals supply the. 6,367 beds available around the state for individuals in need of short-term, acute level of care, psychiatric inpatient. services. Hospitals across the state have been closing psychiatric units, entire acute psychiatric hospitals and. decreasing bed counts for patients needing acute inpatient psychiatric care. What follows is CHA’s attempt to. illustrate the devastating drop over the past fifteen years.
http://www.calhospital.org/sites/main/files/file-attachments/psych_bed_data_14.pdf
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The unit had 54 beds for adult patients and 17 beds for adolescents and children in 2013. Now the number of beds has been reduced to 16 patients for the adult inpatient mental health unit and nine for adolescents and children. The PIC Unit had 10 beds, according to internal documents obtained by Racine County Eye.
https://www.racinecountyeye.com/ascension-cuts-mental-health-unit-staff-beds/
Editor’s note: This is the first story in a two-part series on Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare’s mental health unit. As Ascension Wisconsin restructures the Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare Group, the former Wheaton Franciscan Mental Health and Addiction Care Group is among the departments that have taken a big hit.
https://www.racinecountyeye.com/ascension-cuts-mental-health-unit-staff-beds/
 A dedicated Adult Acute Mental Health Inpatient Unit within a general hospital.  A number of dedicated Patient Bedrooms as an annexe to an Acute Inpatient Unit. The Operational Policy shall determine the size and function of the Adult Acute Mental Health. Inpatient Unit. An Adult Acute Mental Health Inpatient Unit shall comply with the requirements outlined for.
http://www.healthdesign.com.au/haad.hfg/Full_Index/haad_b_adult_mental_health_inpatient_unit.pdf
8.0 Adult Mental Health Inpatient Unit. 8.1 Introduction. 8.1.1 Description. The Adult Acute Mental Health Inpatient Unit provides assessment, admission and inpatient. accommodation in a safe and therapeutic environment suitable for adult mental health. patients and staff. This section is applicable to:
http://www.healthdesign.com.au/haad.hfg/Full_Index/haad_b_adult_mental_health_inpatient_unit.pdf
The material contained in this Mental Health Design Guide is the culmination of a. partnering effort within the Department of Veterans Affairs by the Veterans. Health Administration and the Office of Construction and Facilities Management. to enable the transformation of the environment of care to a patient- and family-.
http://www.cfm.va.gov/til/dGuide/dgMH.pdf
beds for mental health units
The mental health unit had 54 beds for adult patients and 17 beds for adolescents and children in 2013. The Mental Health Unit had 54 beds for adult patients and 17 beds for adolescents and children in 2013.