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The connection between healing spaces and a patient’s recovery is increasingly clear and BWBR is on the leading edge of that evolution, developing facilities that are innovative, dignified, comforting, and safe for patients, their families, and care providers.
Through strong partnerships and decades of experience in health and wellness, we are creating spaces that are redefining mental health care.
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HUMAN-CENTERED SAFETY®
BWBR believes that to promote behaviors that are prosocial and therapeutic, whether in an open environment or secure facility, we have to see the environment from a human-centered lens. This means going beyond anti-ligature applications of hardware solutions and reducing the negative stigma of behavioral health through a compassionate and thoughtful design approach.
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CENTERING STAFF
By putting the safety and security of patients, families, staff, and providers at the center of the design process, BWBR can create healing environments that enable staff to focus on their first priority – delivering compassionate and effective care.
Projects
Center for Safe and Healthy Children and Adolescents
Mayo Clinic
The Mayo Clinic Center for Safe and Healthy Children and Adolescents offers a comforting environment for families and children, typically...
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Mendota Juvenile Treatment Center Renovation and Expansion
State of Wisconsin, Department of Health Services
The Mendota Juvenile Treatment Center (MJTC) is a secure treatment facility located on the Mendota Mental Health Institute campus offering...
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The Pediatric Center of Behavioral Health
Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services
As Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services began plans to add a new facility on an existing campus, the team...
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Inpatient Mental Health Center and Buildout
Regions Hospital
Nearly 10 years after the completion of the new, 100-bed, BWBR-designed Inpatient Mental Health Center tower, Regions and BWBR partnered...
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Avera Behavioral Health Center and Addition
Avera McKennan Hospital
In 2006, the BWBR-designed, 110-bed Avera Behavioral Health Center became the first new freestanding treatment facility of its kind west...
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Generose Building, Psychiatry & Psychology Master Plan and Remodeling
Mayo Clinic
Master Plan | Mayo Clinic engaged BWBR in a master plan to improve space utilization and reorganize the entire Department of...
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For two decades, Melanie has gravitated towards projects that have a dramatic impact on the health and welfare of individuals, from treatment facilities that serve the most complicated mental health cases to social services centers where people feeling vulnerable are looking for help and dignity. Always seeing the people beyond the buildings, she gains an in-depth knowledge of the programming and nuances to create effective and impactful environments.
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Urgent Care: Intentional Design for Mental and Behavioral Health Care
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Human-Centered Safety®: Seeing Mental Health through a Different Lens
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EmPATH Units: Improving Psychiatric Emergency Care
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