DEARBORN, Mich. – Beaumont Hospital recently announced plans to build a new freestanding mental health hospital in conjunction with Pennsylvania-based Universal Health Services (UHS) – making it Beaumont’s ninth hospital once it opens.

The forthcoming project will provide much needed mental health services, which has been noted to be lacking in the southeastern region of Michigan.

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The $40 million behavioral health facility – which will mostly be operated and managed by UHS – will provide a total of 150 beds, doubling its capacity for in-patient mental health care as well as expanding its day programs and outpatient services.

The most important feature around the design and construction of a UHS facility, according to UHS Regional Vice President, Diane Henneman, is patient and staff safety and security while maintaining a therapeutic and healing environment that preserves a patient’s dignity, privacy and comfort.

“UHS applies best practices and the latest construction standards to all of our new facilities to ensure that a patient’s health and wellbeing are first and foremost in everything we do,” said Henneman. “The facility will be intentionally designed to create a therapeutic environment that includes a calming color palette, natural wall décor and art, and natural light throughout building design, as well as ligature resistant fixtures to help maintain patient safety. We want to provide comforting and non-institutional environment that will foster the healing process.”

The new hospital will also integrate electronic systems including Telehealth technology, which supports both assessment and referral as well as provide care.

Epic EMR will be utilized and will interface with Beaumont’s existing EMR.

Furthermore, the new facility will feature a building automation system (BAS), which provides the Facilities team with real-time remote monitoring and control of a majority of the building’s mechanical and electrical systems. The BAS also provides the ability to manage and optimize building efficiency.

In regards to sustainability, UHS sets goals in regard to Energy Star Ratings and as part of that we install LED lights in all of our new behavioral health facilities.

According to Henneman, construction is expected to begin during the fourth quarter of 2019.

JJCA, an architectural firm based in Nashville, with a specialization in community healthcare, has been chosen as the architect for the project. UHS has not yet selected a contractor.

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Research from a September 2014 Columbia Business School study titled, “Should Hospitals Keep Their Patients Longer? The Role of Inpatient and Outpatient Care in Reducing Readmissions,” compared the impact of a longer length of stay in the hospital to the effects of outpatient care for Medicare patients.

The study showed that one additional day in the hospital can reduce mortality risk by 22 percent for patients treated for pneumonia and by 7 percent for heart attack patients. It can also result in five to six times more lives being saved when compared with outpatient care and decrease readmission rates by 7 percent for severe heart-failure patients.

What’s more, the study showed that one extra day in the hospital would, in many cases, cost less overall than the associated outpatient care required with early discharge. The vast number of Medicare patients being readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge is costing taxpayers at least $17 billion annually.

“Currently, about one in every five Medicare patients is readmitted to the hospital,” said Carri Chan, associate professor of decision, risk, and operations at Columbia Business School, in a statement. “Our findings show that one extra day in the hospital could reduce these readmission rates, ensure healthier patients and save money.”

As part of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program financially penalizes hospitals with higher than expected readmissions. Researchers looked at data on more than 6.6 million Medicare patients treated between 2008 and 2011, and estimated the reductions in readmission and mortality rates of an inpatient intervention (keeping patients in the hospital for an extra day) versus providing outpatient interventions.

Since the focus of the Affordable Care Act’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program has been to reduce readmissions of only those patients with heart failure, myocardial infarction or pneumonia, the study focused on these three distinct patient populations.

“Given the stiff penalties imposed under the Affordable Care Act, hospitals are implementing a variety of approaches to aggressively reduce readmission rates, most commonly involving outpatient care,” said Ann P. Bartel, professor of finance and economics at Columbia Business School, in a statement. “While some types of outpatient interventions can be effective, our study shows that hospitals should consider keeping some of their patients in the hospital longer to better control patient care, reduce readmissions and ensure fewer deaths.”

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