The rooms are spare, clean, and safe, with beds built in as solid platforms and open cubbies for personal possessions. Each unit displays handsome photographs that match the scenic theme, soothing images of Shasta at sunrise or the Monterey coast at sunset, rendered onto metal, bolted securely to the wall. Each unit has an isolation room, but according to the staff, isolation or mechanical restraints are rarely required. Unlike a medical-surgical hospital, patients are not in their beds. There are group meetings, physical fitness activities, and meals outside of their sleeping rooms. Compared
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