Surrey Memorial Hospital Child + Adolescent Psychiatric Stabilization

Client · Fraser Health Authority
Location · Surrey, BC, Canada
Completion · 2017

Architecture · KRA
Interior Design · KRA
Construction Management · Kinetic Construction

Surrey Memorial Hospital’s new state-of-the art Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Stabilization Unit (CAPSU) provides 24 hour, 7 days a week inpatient unit for short stay care for youth ages 6 to 17 who are experiencing acute psychiatric problems. CAPSU was British Columbia’s largest and most progressive facility, tripling the province’s capacity to provide care to children and adolescents in crisis.

The new CAPSU accommodates rooms for children and adolescents in separate zones, spaces for leisure, comfort and seclusion, a communal dining space, and a family-friendly waiting room. The design of the CAPSU employs acoustics and dimmable lighting to create a home-like, stable environment with minimal visual stimulation and a calming mural motif (designed by Signals Design Group) where patients and families will feel safe, secure, and in good hands.

The unit’s Snoezelen Room, a multi-sensory environment used to help reduce agitation and anxiety and stimulate and encourage communication, is one of the first of its kind for children and youth in a hospital psychiatric unit in Canada.