The unit will include 40 inpatient beds in a remodeled space and will be the hospital’s first new behavioral health unit since 2009, the report said. The rooms include a variety of features “with a sometimes challenging patient population in mind,”, including doors that can be removed from their hinges if a patient barricades themselves inside, according to the report.
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