Pineapple’s Michelle Blackie explores behavioral health in rural and frontier systems in the United States, places where critical access hospitals often serve as the only point of care for miles in every direction. In these settings, a single hospital must be everything for everyone: emergency department, primary care, mental health provider, and community lifeline. That reality demands an extraordinary level of agility in service delivery, from staff who wear multiple hats to facilities that...
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Pineapple’s Michelle Blackie explores behavioral health in rural and frontier systems in the United States, places where critical access hospitals often serve as the only point of care for miles in every direction. In these settings, a single hospital must be everything for everyone: emergency department, primary care, mental health provider, and community lifeline. That reality demands an extraordinary level of agility in service delivery, from staff who wear multiple hats to facilities that...
Designing for Dignity: A Human-Centered Approach to Behavioral Health Spaces
Healing Spaces: Mental Health Design Dialogue
38 minutes
6 months ago
Designing for Dignity: A Human-Centered Approach to Behavioral Health Spaces
Pineapple’s Michelle Blackie hosts a discussion around how thoughtful design of therapeutic spaces can create more compassionate, effective, and healing environments. How do we move toward a more holistic, human-centered approach to treatment spaces in behavioral health? These environments have previously been shaped primarily by risk mitigation. And while safety is crucial, we now know that the way a space feels - how it supports autonomy, comfort, connection, and dignity - can be just as im...
Healing Spaces: Mental Health Design Dialogue
Pineapple’s Michelle Blackie explores behavioral health in rural and frontier systems in the United States, places where critical access hospitals often serve as the only point of care for miles in every direction. In these settings, a single hospital must be everything for everyone: emergency department, primary care, mental health provider, and community lifeline. That reality demands an extraordinary level of agility in service delivery, from staff who wear multiple hats to facilities that...
