Furniture & Furnishings

When it comes to psychiatric facility design, many practices and assumptions that were traditionally followed may no longer apply.

Lately I have been noticing on several occasions people admonishing others that something is not being done "the right way". This implies that there is only one way to do that particular thing "right" and that the person speaking is in possession of all possible knowledge about the different ways of doing that "thing" and which is the "right' way in this particular instance.

When it comes to psychiatric facility design, sometimes staff comes to “know” certain things about design because they have heard them throughout their professional lives in the facilities in which they have worked. But using such “common knowledge” to work in designing new psychiatric facilities can be very problematic and very costly.

Norix has manufactured a new collection of contract furniture that is ideal for healthcare, hospitality, education and other commercial interiors.

Every facility that admits and treats behavioral health care patients either consciously or sub- consciously determines its level of risk tolerance for a multitude of issues pertaining to its built environment. The sub-conscious decisions may range from simply not knowing that a condition creates a potential safety risks for patients and/or staff to organizations hiding their collective head in the sand and choosing to ignore the threat.