Friday, March 1, 2013 - EDGEWOOD Addiction Treatment

EDGEWOOD News
Edgewood’s latest growth
CAMPUS CONCEPT CONTINUES TO MATERIALIZE WITH NEW RESIDENCES
Edgewood Treatment Centre’s latest
expansion is now complete.
In keeping with a long-term plan
which began with extensive changes to
the main building in 2006, Extended
Care patients and Insite participants
began to move into Phase II in early
February.
After nine months of construction, a
new $3.8 million, two-storey building
now sits prominently facing a pond at
the end of the covered walkway across
from Edgewood’s main facility.
While the 2006 expansion included
an enlarged cafeteria and kitchen, a
fully equipped gym facility, new offices
and group therapy rooms, along with a
meeting room and offices for the Insite
program, Phase II provides for a whole
different set of needs.
Phase II was designed primarily as
a multi-purpose, residential facility.
The east wing will house guests, such
as family members attending family
conferences, and participants of
Edgewood programs, such as Insite
and labyrinth meditational weekend
retreats. The west wing of the new
facility is designed to accomodate
Extended Care patients. The new
facility features a kitchen and eating
areas, lounges and laundry facilities for
guests, as well as meeting rooms and
offices for staff.
To ensure privacy, neither wing is
accessible to the other and both wings
are designed as discrete units.
As well, a new outdoor labyrinth has
been constructed by the pond as part
of the expansion, offering patients the
opportunity to experience the healing
and calming effects of a centuries old
tool in a natural setting.
Grand opening slated for April 26, 2013.
This new two-story building multi-purpose building now stands on the south-east corner of the Edgewood Campus.
New landscaping softens the curve of the pathway leading to The Residence.
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