Unity Center for Behavioral Health offers calm alternative to noisy, high-volume emergency departments

By Erin Hoover Barnett May 30, 2017 Portland, Ore.

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Patient artwork hangs on the walls at Unity Center for Behavioral Health in Portland, April 19, 2017.
(OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

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Ben White, a teacher through Multnomah Education Service District, uses a walking stick insect as part of a mindfulness exercise in the classroom at Unity Center for Behavioral Health in Portland, May 11, 2017.
(OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

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Dr. Sruthi Chunduri heads to meet with a patient at the Unity Center for Behavioral Health in Portland, April 19, 2017. Unity is operated through a partnership between four regional health care providers, with OHSU providing all the medical staff at the center. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

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Dr. Sruthi Chunduri meets with a patient at the Unity Center for Behavioral Health in Portland, April 19, 2017. Unity is operated through a partnership between four regional health care providers, with OHSU providing all the medical staff at the center. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

Keith Cheng, M.D.

Keith Cheng, M.D., clinical associate professor of psychiatry (child and adolescent psychiatry), OHSU School of Medicine, and interim child and adolescent medical director at Unity. Unity is operated through a partnership between four regional health care providers, with OHSU providing all the medical staff facilitating services at the center. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

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Nurse practitioner Andrew Hughes updates chart information at the Unity Center for Behavioral Health in Portland, April 19, 2017. Unity is operated through a partnership between four regional health care providers, with OHSU providing all the medical staff at the center. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

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A note of thanks from a patient is pinned outside the office of Keith Cheng, M.D., clinical associate professort at OHSU and interim child and adolescent medical director at Unity Behavioral Health Center in Portland, May 11, 2017.
(OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

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A bag of "kindness confetti" on the counter in the youth area at Unity Center for Behavioral Health in Portland, April 19, 2017. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

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Ben White, a teacher through Multnomah Education Service District, in the classroom at Unity Center for Behavioral Health in Portland, April 19, 2017.
(OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

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A library of books outside the classroom at Unity Center for Behavioral Health in Portland, April 19, 2017.
(OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

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(Left to right) Third-year medical student Ishak Elkhal, first-year psychiatry resident Andrew Hughes, M.D. and Tom Veeder, M.D., attending psychiatrist at Unity and Unity Inpatient Rotation Director meet to discuss a patient's case at the Unity Center for Behavioral Health in Portland, April 19, 2017. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

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First-year psychiatry resident Andrew Hughes, M.D. discusses a patient's case with a team at the Unity Center for Behavioral Health in Portland, April 19, 2017. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

George Keepers, M.D. (OHSU)