BUILDING PROJECTS
CYGNET HOSPITAL COVENTRY
Taking care in the community
For Tangram Architects, a new mental health unit for women on a constrained but high-profile urban site in Coventry required careful handling and expertise to get the balance right. James Parker reports
C
ygnet Hospital Coventry is a new 56-bed facility located on a tight urban site 1 km east of Coventry
city centre, offering a range of specialist mental health services for women. The hospital is run by independent provider Cygnet Healthcare, which works “in partnership with the NHS, Clinical Commissioning Groups and local authori- ties,” and for whom specialist healthcare architect Tangram has designed several mental health schemes.
The building includes a 16-bed Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) plus a 33-bed rehabilitation service which has the aim of preparing service users for independent living in the community once they leave the PICU. This includes a seven- bed ‘Transitional Living Unit’ where users have their own facilities for washing and cooking. The ‘care pathway’ typically begins with service users admitted to the low secure unit-designated PICU located in the
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