Psych Facility Design and Project Management Newsletter 

 Bernstein & Associates, Architects (Psych Facility Design)

 Empire Projects, Inc. (Psych Facility Project Management)

October 2007

In This Issue

Featured Articles:

1."Report Advises Health Systems on Disaster Response", (c) Mark Moran, Psychiatric News, August 2007

2. "Substance Abuse Treatment: A Great Investment", (c)  Rich Daly, Psychiatric News, 12/16/05

3. "Hospitals' Psychiatric Services Are Threatened Despite Critical Functions", (c) American Journal of Psychiatry, 9/30/07


Featured Service: Psychiatric Facility Patient Safety Audit  


Current Psychiatric Facility Projects of Bernstein & Assoc. Architects:


About Bernstein & Associates, Architects:

Founded in 1990, *Bernstein & Assoc., Architects - PLLC* is an award-winning architectural firm specializing in : health care, with a sub-specialty in psychiatric design and construction.  The firm is currently licensed to practice architecture in : FL, TX, IO, IA, OH, NY, NJ & CT.  In addition the firm principal is NCARB certified and can be licensed in any state within 30 days.


About Empire Projects, Inc.:

 

A division of our firm *Empire Projects, Inc.* (www.EmpireProjects.com), provides "Owner's Rep" services to facility owners, including management of the design and construction process to maintain quality standards, and assure conformance to budget and schedule.


Featured Articles:

"Report Advises Health Systems on Disaster Response", (c) Mark Moran, Psychiatric News, August 2007

"Better funding and integration of emergency and trauma services, improved and sustained training of physicians and other emergency health care workers, and enhanced legal protection of first responders to a disaster are the broad goals issued by an 18-member coalition of health care and medical organizations in a 54-page report titled "Improving Health System Preparedness for Terrorism and Mass-Casualty Events..."

For full text of the article, go to: http://www.bernarch.com/Articles-10-07-PsychNewsReportAdvisesonDisasterResponse-.htm

"Substance Abuse Treatment: A Great Investment", (c)  Rich Daly, Psychiatric News, 12/16/05

"The finding of at least a 7-to-1 return on public investment in substance abuse treatment could fuel support for such programs among the public and policymakers in an increasingly tight financial environment.  Substance abuse treatment advocates in California have a new tool to gather support for increased funding, with the release of a recent study that found every dollar spent on substance abuse treatment generates more than $7 in monetary benefits for society..."

For full text of the article, go to: http://www.bernarch.com/Articles-10-07-PsychNews-SubstanceAbuseGreatInvestment.htm

 

"Hospitals' Psychiatric Services Are Threatened Despite Critical Functions", (c) American Journal of Psychiatry, 9/30/07

"Inadequate insurance payments for services provided by psychiatric units in general hospitals have led to widespread closing, downsizing, or off-campus transfer of inpatient psychiatric units. Yet, these units are essential for treatment of coexisting medical and psychiatric conditions, appropriate care of psychiatric disorders in the emergency room, and education of medical trainees..."

For full text of the article, go to: http://www.bernarch.com/Articles-10-07-AmerJournalofPsych-PsychSvcsThreatened.htm



Featured Service: Psychiatric Facility Patient Safety Audit:

 

Our team of psychiatric design experts has completed (30) “Psychiatric Patient Safety Audits”, for facilities in (12) states. These audits are often performed after there has been a patient incident in a hospital or psychiatric institution, but it is always recommended that facilities housing psychiatric patients be pro-active, and procure this patient-safety focused audit before there is a patient incident. 

 

Our “Psychiatric Patient Safety Audits” includes a basic checklist of (68) psychiatric patient-safety focused items but it expands and contracts depending on the type and combinations of patient populations and whether it is private, public, freestanding or part of a med/surg facility.  The number of variables that need to be considered vary widely with the nature and culture of the organization as well as the age, diagnosis, medical issues and many other aspects of the patients themselves. 

 


 

Experience: Psychiatric Facility Design & Construction :

  • A/E: Gut Rehab of 44,000SF, (85) Bed, Adult and Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatric Center 
  • A/E: Creation of New (60) Bed Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatric Center
  • A/E: Master Plan and Renovations of Existing (105) Bed Psychiatric Center, including: Adult, Adolescent, Pediatric, Outpatient and CPEP
  • A/E: Psych Patient Safety/Suicide Prevention Audits, Upgrades, Renovations

The firm is currently licensed to practice architecture in : FL, TX, IO, IA, OH, NY, NJ & CT.  In addition the firm principal is NCARB certified and can be licensed in any state within 30 days.


Bernstein & Assoc., Architects – PLLC
59 West 19th Street - 6A, New York, NY 10011
Ph : 212-463-8200 / Fx : 212-463-9898 /
info@bernarch.com

Empire Projects, Inc.
59 West 19th Street - 6A, New York, NY 10011
Ph : 212-463-0800 / Fx : 212-463-9898 /
info@empireprojects.com
 


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