The new Permian Basin Behavioral Health Center will incorporate the latest evidence-based design features in an attractive, welcoming therapeutic environment.
Key features will include:
- Multiple outdoor spaces and natural light to connect people in the facility with the environment, including a natural playa on the site.
- Facility and landscape design features that respect and enhance the natural environment, including drought-tolerant plants and extensive rainwater capture capability.
- Capacity for 100 inpatients, with adequate separation to safely support a variety of diagnoses and a full range of ages, from children to senior adults.
- Patient dining distributed within the patient units to help foster a home-like atmosphere.
- Multiple outdoor courtyard settings to provide a variety of therapeutic recreational opportunities for patients.
- Outpatient services on-site for all ages, including counseling offices, group therapy spaces, intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization programs.
- Focus on the needs of children and adolescents, including enhanced testing and therapy options.
- A new teaching home for the psychiatry department of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center of the Permian Basin, including the training of psychiatry residents and a specialty fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry
Donors will be recognized in a highly visible, high traffic area of the Permian Basin Behavioral Health Center.
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$1,000,000 or More
The new Permian Basin Behavioral Health Center will be located between Odessa and Midland off FM 1788 just south of the Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center.
