Lake Behavioral Hospital
Speedy retrofit converts medical office building into inpatient/outpatient behavioral health hospital
Lake County, Illinois suffered from a severe shortage of behavioral health inpatient beds. A renovation and addition transform a 35-year-old medical office building into the 146-bed Lake Behavioral Hospital, the first facility of its kind in the region. The 88,000-square-foot hospital was designed in four and a half months and built in 13.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Addition expands the original building’s area by 50%
- Floors two through four each have three day rooms (where patients spend most of their time) surrounded by patient rooms
- Large, shatterproof windows bring natural light into day rooms and display surrounding trees
- All patient rooms are “ligature resistant” (e.g., sloped doors, no open spaces between handrails and the wall)
- Two outdoor courtyards
- Exercise room
- Central dining room with full-service kitchen
