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The new mental health inpatient centre will create a number of
benefits:
- Enhance the ability of Saskatoon Health Region to recruit
and retain top level mental health care professionals
- Link to 24-hour Emergency medical services
- Increase efficiency through consolidation of two inpatient units (the unit at Saskatoon City Hospital will move to Royal University
Hospital)
- Create a provincial specialized
Child & Adolescent inpatient psychiatry unit
- Specialized classroom space
and appropriate therapy and daily
activity space
- Create a purpose-built facility
that facilitates observation of acutely
ill, eliminating the need for a locked
unit
- Address safety issues, such as protection and support for
families, and the separation of children and youth patients from
adult patients
- Greater cultural sensitivity to the Aboriginal community via
staff cultural awareness training
- Creation of a calm and peaceful environment for patients.
For example, the scale of rooms will approach home-like dimensions to promote behaviour that includes healthy social
interaction and recreation
- Accessible to those with physical disabilities
- Use of natural light as much as possible to “deinstitutionalize” the hospital environment
- Designed with a patient-focused approach: mix of spaces
to facilitate therapy, depending on the physical and emotional
needs of the patient
- Space for interdisciplinary staff activities, such as conference and teaching programs.
- Activity space for occupational/recreational therapy
- A therapeutic kitchen as an area for therapeutic training
- Three ‘zones’ of secure patient movement/activity areas:
- Patient sleeping rooms with contiguous lounge and access
to interview and treatment rooms for individual therapy;
- Group therapy, quiet area, and social activity areas for patients involved in planned social programs to assist those learning to cope with the social interaction required for day-to-day
living. Group dining, kitchen and laundry areas for patient use
are this zone;
- Public/visitor interaction zone includes family/visitor areas with lounge-type seating adjacent to the primary entrance to the centre.
- Strengthen partnership with the Mental Health Services Care
Group and the University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine,
Department of Psychiatry in support of shared commitments to
teaching, research and health services delivery.
Please consider making a donation to address the pressing
needs of those who suffer from mental illness and addictions.
To access Mental Health Services in the Saskatoon Health Region, visit the SHR website and scroll down the page for a directory of services offered. |
