Mind the Gap: Design for Behavioral & Mental Health in Much Needed Settings and Circumstances Workshop Resources and Sponsor Partners

Altro is a world-leading manufacturer and innovator in commercial floors and walls.

Altro offers a specialized portfolio of integrated floor and wall solutions readily available to help you create behavioral and mental health environments that balance wellness and healing with safety and security.  These practical fit-for-purpose design options offer ligature-resistant finishes that comply with FGI Guidelines established for both high-risk and low-risk area types.
 

Improving Lives by Design. We believe a better environment can make all the difference for patients, visitors, and care providers.

As a leader in furniture design and manufacturing for Behavioral Healthcare facilities, our products are developed with maximum safety, comfort, and durability in mind. Our portfolio includes beautiful award-winning products specifically designed for Behavioral Health that support the healthcare experience for all.
 

At Spec™, we are leaders in Behavioral Health furniture. For more than two decades, we have furnished countless facilities—supervised, semi-supervised and common areas—with designs that have care at their core and warmth in their style.

At Spec™, we are leaders in Behavioral Health furniture. For more than two decades, we have furnished countless facilities—supervised, semi-supervised and common areas—with designs that have care at their core and warmth in their style.

Accurate Lock and Hardware offers an extensive range of ligature resistant and ADA-compliant products that positively contribute to healing environments. Proudly made in the USA.

Accurate offers a variety of ligature resistant solutions to easily upgrade the safety of a variety of popular openings for swinging and sliding doors.  The LR-SW Ligature Resistant Swinging Door System is designed to be a cost-effective solution that provides increased safety and privacy in the bathroom.  The LR-SDS is a patented space-saving solution that operates using a concealed track system, floor guide and vertical rod bolt to maximize patients’ privacy while also keeping staff safety in mind.
 

Safehinge Primera: Manufacturers of Ligature-resistant Bathroom Doors for Behavioral Health.

Safehinge Primera develops products that help protect people through vulnerable times by designing a range of doors and hardware that reduces the risk of suicide in behavioral health environments. Their saloon-style bathroom door releases at a weight of <11lbs and helps to create a safer environment whilst preserving the privacy and dignity of patients.
 

At Norix, we design innovative, robust furniture that meets real-world needs for humanizing challenging environments.

As a leading provider of healthcare furniture solutions, Norix has earned a reputation for strength, durability, and long-term performance.  Our behavioral healthcare products are designed and engineered to meet or exceed rigorous industry standards, are conscientiously designed for safety, and seek to empower the environment as a therapeutic resource.
 

Since 1946, Whitehall Manufacturing has been an industry leader in the healthcare plumbing products sector.

The BestCare® Dignity Suite is a curated collection of ligature-resistant bathroom products. Designed to keep patients and staff safe while still offering a peaceful and well-balanced environment. The Dignity Suite is one of four BestCare suite packages and includes fixtures such as the shower, sink, and toilet, as well as accessories like mirrors and faucets.
 

ModuForm has been manufacturing humanizing, safe, secure and durable furniture for behavioral health facilities since 1976.

Providing a safe sleeping space is critical to improving patient outcomes. Our Moxie collection is designed to be ligature resistant, as well as being impervious to puncture, fluid, and picking. Now, more than ever, Hospitals are relying on ModuForm to provide them with appropriate and humanizing furnishings, throughout the facility, that will provide safety, security, durability, comfort, and compassion for physical and mental well-being. 
 

We create mindfully designed furniture that is exactly fit for purpose in transforming challenging environments.

We design furniture that is exactly fit for purpose, from behavioral health facilities, hospitals, to correctional settings. We understand what really matters and can match your requirements to the products or services that deliver the ideal solution for you all while ensuring even the smallest of details are designed for your peace of mind.