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Unbuilt Architecture
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| Completion |
11 / 2026 |
| Specific Use of Building |
Comprehensive Behavioral Health Campus |
| Project Location |
Perris, California |
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The RUHS Wellness Village is a first-of-its-kind project, designed to address the social, emotional, physical, and environmental determinants of health within a single campus. The campus includes five buildings and spans nearly 20 acres, with various park settings, activity areas, and gathering spaces that foster community engagement. Additional amenities include a market, café, and pet hotel. The Village enables visitors to relax into a peaceful and supportive pace of life, fostering growth in mind, body, and soul. It is a place for all, regardless of age, race, gender, or sexuality.
The design process included extensive research with the County and end users to gather key stakeholder feedback that informed functional and operational needs. These stakeholders and team members have spent years bringing this vision to life for the community; its fruition truly represents a dream made real.
A Community Health and Wellness Center anchors the campus, containing primary care, dentistry, imaging, pharmacy, nutritional programs, and community services. A central feature of the building is the Healthy Market, which offers WIC‑approved food and provides families with accessible, affordable, and nutritious choices.
The Youth & Family Care Center delivers several first‑in‑state or first‑in‑county innovations that dramatically improve the delivery of youth behavioral health care in California. Services include outpatient care, short-term family residence, and one of California’s first licensed Children’s Crisis Residential Programs (CCRP).
The Recovery Center & Urgent Care building integrates urgent, crisis, and residential services into one streamlined hub, including adult and youth behavioral health urgent care, a sobering center, and crisis residential treatment. This model reduces handoff delays and supports long-term recovery.
The Residences provide supportive housing. By integrating stable housing directly into the care continuum, the Village addresses one of the greatest determinants of health: a safe, supportive, and affordable place to live.
Finally, the Restorative Care building houses an adult residential facility (ARF) and a mental health rehabilitation center (MHRC), representing a groundbreaking shift in the design of secured behavioral health environments. Although the MHRC is a locked, high‑acuity setting, the therapeutic, dignified design aligns with trauma‑informed principles and supports autonomy and well-being. By prioritizing comfort and a sense of humanity, the space communicates safety rather than confinement.
Early on, the team honed in on strategies to improve the local community, using the Healthy Places Index as a baseline. The design implements numerous tactics to increase occupant comfort and enhance carbon sequestration; for example, by planting 583 new trees on site, the project is anticipated to sequester nearly 2 million pounds of CO2 over a 40-year lifespan. The project is targeting LEED-NC Silver certification.
Together, these innovations position the RUHS Wellness Village as a state- and nation-wide model for how community health infrastructure can integrate medical care, behavioral health, residential services, nutrition, and recovery-oriented principles into a single ecosystem of healing and wellness. |
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