Pima County Kino Community Hospital

The Psychiatric Hospital and Crisis Recovery Center on the Kino Community Hospital campus serve multiple educational and healthcare roles, consolidating resources, accommodating a new teaching program, and providing much-needed mental health services in appropriate settings. Conceived as a new wing of the existing hospital rather than a freestanding building, the Psychiatric Hospital links directly at grade to the hospital’s emergency department and increases the hospital’s total behavioral health bed count by more than 50%. Deep sun-protected recesses in upper levels provide outdoor terraces and shade primary circulation corridors while providing exterior views. Housing a crisis assessment unit, a crisis stabilization unit, and a sub-acute unit, the freestanding Crisis Recovery Center is organized around a central courtyard and features a bipartite circulation system separating public and staff and enabling secure movement of patients. A shared multifunction service court between the Psychiatric Hospital and the Crisis Recovery Center includes an ambulance dropoff and a secure sallyport with direct access to courtroom facilities.