Students Name: Samia Mansour, Juhyun So
Advisor: Dr. Hui Cai and Stephanie Vito
University: University of Kansas
This project is a 48-bed behavioral health hospital adjacent to the University Medical Center in New Orleans. This project aims to provide whole-person care to address not only behavioral health but the root causes of behavioral health issues. It also intends to remove the stigma associated with behavioral health by integrating the hospital into the community. This project is to provide a home-base that offers a full range of behavioral health services and address the needs across underserved user groups by providing three 16-bed inpatient units (Geriatric, Adult, Adolescent), an outpatient behavioral health service, and a homeless rehabilitation center. It integrates nature, music, arts, nutrition, as well as physical activities in the holistic healing process for mental health recovery and prevention.
