Healthcare Design - June/July 2020 - 9

EDITORIAL
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD

Hank Adams

T H E N E X T WAV E

This special issue dedicated entirely to mental
health design comes as we all start to feel the
effects of COVID-19 By Jennifer Kovacs Silvis

Wayne Barger
Carolyn BaRoss
Sam Burnette

HDR

SMITHGROUP

PERKINS AND WILL

EARL SWENSSON ASSOCIATES

Sheila F. Cahnman
JUMPGARDEN CONSULTING LLC

Thomas W. Chessum

CO ARCHITECTS

James Crispino
GENSLER

Christine Hester Devens
THE STATISTICS you'll find in this issue are sobering.
One in five U.S. adults experiences a mental illness;
suicide is a leading cause of death for U.S. children;
one in eight emergency department visits is associated with mental illness or substance abuse. But-
more promising-as a nation, we're finally starting
to respond at a more appropriate scale.
Surging demand has been answered by legislation that broadens behavioral health coverage, as
the importance of earlier diagnosis and treatment
is recognized-converging factors that are inspiring new projects across the country. It's a trend that we've been watching
unfold for some time now. In fact, it was about a year ago that we began our
2020 editorial planning and decided to do something that would be a first
for Healthcare Design: an entire issue dedicated to a single topic. The result
of that decision, and a lot of hard work by the editorial team, is this Mental
Health Issue in your hands or on your screen.
What we didn't anticipate a year ago, though, was the global climate in
which we'd be publishing this issue. We didn't know that it would come on
the brink of a new mental health crisis. We're now two-plus months into the
COVID-19 pandemic, surpassing 90,000 deaths here in the U.S. alone. The
trauma associated with so many factors tied to this state of emergency is only
now beginning to be realized.
On May 13, the United Nations (UN) released the policy brief "COVID-19
and the Need for Action on Mental Health," citing the deep toll the crisis has
taken-distress from health worries and social isolation, fear of dying or losing loved ones, economic turmoil from lost income. Additionally, it states,
core populations like frontline healthcare workers and first responders
have been exposed to numerous stressors, while children and adolescents
have had their lives upended due to disrupted education, uncertainty about
the future, and family stress. To that end, the UN urges a swift response to
minimize the mental health consequences of the pandemic, including widespread availability of services now and in the future.
And in this current reality, our Mental Health Issue isn't just a celebration
of new projects, care models, and operational approaches but inspiration for
where we as an industry might go next to help ensure those statistics I mentioned earlier don't worsen.
There are so many ways healthcare designers can influence and respond to
the COVID-19 crisis, and I encourage you to watch HCDmagazine.com for
the resources and education we've been producing to help inform you along
the way. I hope a year from now we start to see the benefit of adding mental
health design solutions to that list. 

Mary Frazier

AECOM

EWINGCOLE

Jocelyn Lum Frederick
HC TANGRAM DESIGN

Catherine L. Gow

FRANCIS CAUFFMAN

Natalie Miovski Hagerty
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA

Erik Hanson

STANTEC ARCHITECTURE

Suzen L. Heeley
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER

Scott Holmes
Walter Jones
Randy Keiser

BWBR

METROHEALTH SYSTEM

TURNER CONSTRUCTION CO.

Julie Kent

TRINITY HEALTH

Bryan Langlands
Tiana Lemons
Michael Lied

GBBN ARCHITECTS

Mike McKay
Victoria Navarro

NBBJ

ORCUTT/WINSLOW

UW HEALTH

ADVOCATE AURORA HEALTH

Kurt Neubek
Don Orndoff

KAISER PERMANENTE

Diane R.K. Osan
Chris Powers

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CANNONDESIGN

BURNS & MCDONNELL

William D. Repichowskyj
E4H ARCHITECTURE

Kim Shinn
TLC ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS

Janet H. Sisolak
UT MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER

Karl R. Sonnenberg
ZIMMER GUNSUL FRASCA ARCHITECTS LLP

Kurt Spiering
Steve Stokes

HGA

GRESHAM SMITH

Jeffrey C. Stouffer

HKS INC.

Paul E. Strohm
Jocelyn Stroupe

CANNONDESIGN

Melanie Taylor
Joshua A. Theodore
Anthony Treu

HOK

BOLDT
LEO A DALY

SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL

Travis Tyson
Gary L. Vance

CLEVELAND CLINIC
VANCE CONSULTING

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