"What this new campus accomplishes is a fundamental shift to a new paradigm of mental health treatment for the seriously mentally ill. It is a modern environment which clearly puts the needs of patients first."
Executive Director
Rochester Psychiatric Center
With over twenty-five years of experience, architecture+ has worked on a broader range of behavioral healthcare projects than firm in North America. We are experts in the programming and design of facilities for special populations, long-term care and secure institutions. We are not only designers but participants in the evolution of healthcare architecture.
Our president, Francis Murdock Pitts, has served as President of The American College of Healthcare Architects. He has also served as President of the AIA's Academy of Architecture for Health and continues to be an active volunteer and contributor to this organization and numerous others committed to the advancement of healthcare architecture. His expertise is regularly solicited by colleagues and providers throughout the United States and Canada. Among other accomplishments, he also organized a national conference for ASHE that brought together the leading authorities on design of therapeutic environments.
Our work with special populations is innovative and in touch with anticipated trends in treatment modalities. We have received awards from the American Institute of Architects, Eastern New York Chapter, for West 5th Street Campus in Hamilton, Ontario, Central Massachusetts Psychiatric Facility, and Sunmount Center for Intensive Treatment in Tupper Lake, New York.
architecture+ develops and maintains the patient safety standards for the New York State Office of Mental Health. In this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBjIEldOEmI, architecture+ principal Francis Murdock Pitts demonstrates why arc fault interruption, ground fault interruption, and tamper resistance are all important in a psychiatric hospital and how to provide all three features on the same electrical circuit.