LUMBERTON — The Cannon Foundation has awarded Southeastern Health’s Behavioral Health Program a $150,000 grant.

The money will be used to buy specialty furniture designed for psychiatric medical patients. The furnishings include furniture for a patient community room, dining room and state-of-the-art psych/med beds.

Anthony Grimaldi, Southeastern Health’s director of Behavioral Health, said the beds will help patients with concurrent psychiatric and medical needs to rapidly transfer from the emergency room to Southeastern Regional Medical Center’s Psychiatric/Medical Unit.

“The Cannon Foundation has graciously given us money to purchase state-of-the-art beds, chairs and other furnishings to create an environment of well-being and safety for these patients,” Grimaldi said. “Most psychiatric beds are just platform beds, they don’t move. These are designed to be anti-ligature medical beds, allowing us to serve patients with medical issues who have mobility issues. They will have all the technology, safety and medical features needed to serve our patients.”

The furniture for the community room and separate dining room also will be specialty furniture, designed to be used safely by patients and visitors in a psychiatric medical setting on the first floor of hospital.

“It allows us to treat folks in need of both medical and psychiatric care at the same time and same place, resulting in patients healing and recovering quicker,” Grimaldi said.

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Roxana Ross

Roxana Ross is content writer and photographer for Southeastern Health.