Selected Clients

Dr. Dvoskin has served as the design consultant for major renovations and new construction of a number of state, federal, and territorial psychiatric facilities during his long career. The following is a partial list of these projects:

• New York - As part of duties as Associate Commissioner of Mental Health for the state of New York, oversaw design of major renovations to Mid-Hudson Psychiatric Center, a 300-bed forensic psychiatric hospital in Middletown, NY. Completion of this project resulted in significant reductions in violent incidents at the facility. 
• Georgia - As part of a federal class action, plaintiffs and defendants, assessed suicide hazards at six of Georgia's large state prisons, resulting in cost-effective, potentially life-saving physical plant changes to rooms in which suicidal inmates were housed.
• Louisiana - At the request of plaintiffs and defendants, performed a comprehensive assessment of suicide hazards in the state's juvenile correctional facilities. 
• Puerto Rico - Served as design consultant for a new correctional psychiatric center, which cost less than renovation of the existing building, which was the basis for a finding of unconstitutional conditions.
• Michigan - Assisted the state of Michigan, which was involved in constitutional litigation regarding its prison mental health system, in creating a system within the Department of Mental Health. Also served as the design consultant for new beds added to a state forensic psychiatric facility.
• Maryland, Florida, and Maine - Served as consultant to Commissioners of Mental Health, including consultation on the physical plants of forensic and civil psychiatric hospitals.
• Delaware - Served as the design consultant for the new forensic wing of the state's psychiatric hospital.
• Colorado - Served as the design consultant for the state's new forensic psychiatric hospital; a design that combines a sense of privacy and dignity among patients without sacrificing the visibility needed for staff to maintain safety.
• Washington, DC - Served as consultant to two Federal Receivers, then to the Commissioner of Mental Health, in a variety of areas. These included an assessment of the number of beds needed, and then assisting in a Capital Plan for the entire District of Columbia Mental Health System. Most recently and currently, serves as design consultant for the creation of a new Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital, to replace the entire civil and forensic hospital campus. The design of this facility, now under construction, included facilitating an innovative consumer advisory panel, which had input into every phase of the project's design.
• North Carolina – Consultant to the architectural renovation of the forensic unit at Broughton State Hospital.
• North Carolina – Consultant to Disability Rights North Carolina to assess the safety and security of the new Central Regional Hospital.
• Harris County, Texas – Consultant to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office on the construction of a new jail in Houston.
• Miami–Dade County, Florida – Consultant on the capital renovation and program development for a new community forensic facility.
• Oregon Department of Corrections – Consultant to the creation of a large correctional complex, including a mental health unit, in Junction City.
• Idaho Department of Corrections – Consultant to the creation of a 300-bed mental health unit.
• California Department of Corrections – Consultant to the design of prison mental health and healthcare units
• Hawaii - Served as an architectural design consultant for a new patient building at the Hawaii State Hospital