Ottawa Hospital's emergency psych units 'softened' after suicide

The Ottawa Hospital has “softened” the look of its emergency psychiatric unit in response to a year-long campaign by the grieving parents of a mentally ill wedding photographer who feared its windowless rooms.
Ryan Parent, 37, suffered from depression and anxiety. He took his own life at home in November 2017.
Five months before he died, Parent spent 56 hours in the psychiatric emergency services (PES) unit at the Civic campus while waiting for a bed to open on the psychiatric ward.