With its new Medical Tower II project, Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters in Norfolk, Va., aims to provide a new line of mental and behavioral health services to southeastern Virginia. The $224-million, 14-story hospital broke ground in September 2019 and is scheduled for substantial completion in February 2022. It will house services that follow a nontraditional approach to behavioral and mental health treatment, requiring the team to collaborate extensively in order to meet its unique design considerations.
Tamika Harris, vice president of facilities and support services at CHKD, says the hospital system has seen increased demand for inpatient mental and behavioral health services in recent years, but it didn’t have the facilities to properly care for patients at its existing 60-year-old hospital.