West Springs Hospital, a 64-bed psychiatric hospital located in Grand Junction, Colorado, has announced that the Hospital’s top administrator and executive vice president, Kim Boe, is retiring after nearly 12 years of dedicated service. Brandi Kroese, who previously served as director of operations, will now take on the role of vice president. During her tenure…
Hospitals and psychiatric centers made tough decisions as the pandemic unfolded. The early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic were rife with challenges for inpatient psychiatric care. Neither the open layouts found in many psychiatric units and facilities nor the traditional elements of inpatient treatment, such as group therapy, were conducive to infection control, yet psychiatric…
– Originally posted in Healthcare Design Magazine. In 2015, Mind Springs Health’s West Springs Hospital in Grand Junction, Colo., began planning a 62,000-square-foot expansion. A visioning session early in the design process adopted the slogan “Creating a Place of Sanctuary” that would become the guiding principal for the design process of the 48-bed addition (with future planned…
