Buffalo General Medical Center is coverting an existing bay in its emergency department into a "safe room" to better treat patients with behavioral health issues, according to an article in the Buffalo Business Journal.
The project calls for adding safety doors and hardware, as well as covering medical gases and eliminating sharp corners and strangulation hazards.
The safe room will allow the hospital to more safely and effectively treat patients with acute behavioral health concerns, according to Kaleida Health, Buffalo General’s parent company.
Buffalo General closed its 91-bed behavioral health unit last summer after teaming up with Erie County Medical Center to create the 180-bed Regional Behavioral Health Center of Excellence on the ECMC campus.
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