Adult Acute Facilities
The café area and reception are located on the spine link.
orientation for service-users. The façade uses reconstituted stone cladding panels generally of a buff colour to complement the existing stone on the site. Within the courtyard areas, a lighter off-white stone colour is used to reflect more light in the enclosed space.
There are three adult acute wards with either 15 or 16 beds for male and female service-users, and a 14-bed Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). The wards are on two storeys, and generally have: En suite single bedroom accommodation, including wheelchair accessible rooms, and swing bedrooms between two zones to enable gender flexibility. • A day lounge including separate female lounge.
A service-user dining area.
of the adult acute wards, and also has a de-escalation room and seclusion room suite. There is a further de-escalation room shared by the two adult acute wards to the first floor.
One of the day lounges.
• A dining room. • A ward pantry or servery. • An activity room. • A quiet room. • A clinic room and separate drugs dispensing room with privacy lobby.
• A ward office. • A ward reception. • A patient laundry room. • A patient possessions store. • Interview rooms. • A ward manager’s office. The PICU is on the ground floor, with one
• The glazed spine link. This connects the various departments and wards together, including the wards and other facilities within the Grade II-listed Farnham Road buildings. Although this is effectively a communication space, it has been designed to function as an art gallery link with views out to orientate those within as they pass from one department to another. The link defines and separates the more public side of the building, where the café and therapies areas are located, and the more private ward areas, and creates a journey for patients attending other work and leisure facilities to normalise their day.
a sense of security
Red Alert staff attack systems have been protecting staff in the workplace from the threat of attack and abuse for more than 15 years.
The new Curo alarm transmitter gives staff the ‘sense of security’ that help can be quickly summoned, by the press of a button or the tug of a transmitter.
Response personnel are notified of a call for assistance by interfacing with radio paging equipment and indicator panels. With the technology being based on high-powered IR transmission, functionality, reliability and simplicity of use are key attributes of the Red Alert system.
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