AIA Extra: Building a Safe Behavioral Health Environment of Care

AIA Extra: Building a Safe

Behavioral Health Environment of Care

Kimberly N. McMurray, AIA, EDAC, MBA, NCARB offers a nationally recognized expertise in mental and behavioral health design. McMurray is a practicing healthcare planner and architect with 38 years of project leadership in healthcare for academic, non-profit, and private medical campus architecture. McMurray has a decade of experience from the owner’s multi-disciplinary perspective, which enables her to embrace a unique perspective and response to client needs. McMurray brings a detailed understanding of clinical models, operational processes, regulatory concerns, and research for mental and behavioral health design with an emphasis of creating safe, therapeutic, and restorative environments.

Learning Objectives:

• Introduction – Understanding Why a Safety Risk Assessment is needed within an Inpatient Psychiatric Unit, Include Learning Basic Terminology and Definitions.
• Regulatory - Learn about Behavioral Health Facilities Regulatory Resources, The Joint commission's Suicide Prevention Portal and Application of FGI Guidelines for Hospitals.
• Understanding - One Approach for Executing “Patient and Staff Safety Review” Assessments (PSSR).
• Application - How to Analyze and Translate the Safety Risk Assessment into Design Solutions.

May 3

12-1 PM

Bowden Bldg, Room 1

120 Church St

Pensacola, FL 32502

1 HSW/LU

Free for members

$20 for non-members

Lunch will be provided. 

Space is limited. 

Registration is required.

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