The University of Arizona Medical Center’s Behavioral Health Pavilion and Crisis Response Center has received a citation in Modern Healthcare’s 2014 Design Awards, according to an article on the Cannon Design website.

The center’s 96-bed psychiatric hospital and crisis response center has acute and sub-acute inpatient services, outpatient therapy and crisis assessment. The facility includes a dedicated entrance for police offers and paramedics to facilitate the secure transfer of individuals in crisis, allowing first-responders to return to their duties much faster, the article said. 

The crisis response center is meant to stabilize patients and assess their need for acute or emergency psychiatric care, helping to reduce visits to the emergency room as well as the jail or juvenile detention facilities. 

Since many behavioral-health patients enter the healthcare system through the legal system, a courtroom is part of the facility.

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