--- title: Montage Health Ohana Center: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024 description: Find out why Montage Health Ohana Center is one of the best inventions of 2024 canonical: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094602/montage-health-ohana-center/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-10-30T11:09:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T11:54:28.268Z article:section: Business og:title: Montage Health Ohana Center: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024 og:description: Find out why Montage Health Ohana Center made this year's list og:url: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094602/montage-health-ohana-center/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21e66ab8ba43449b/698a8a20e6e84a1bfd2b80e5/montage-health-ohana-campus-best-inventions.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Montage Health Ohana Center: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Montage Health Ohana Center: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024 twitter:description: Find out why Montage Health Ohana Center made this year's list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21e66ab8ba43449b/698a8a20e6e84a1bfd2b80e5/montage-health-ohana-campus-best-inventions.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 30, 2024 # Healing Amid Nature by [Jeff Wilser](/author/jeff-wilser/) ## Jeff Wilser  default default Research has shown that being in nature confers physical health benefits, including lowering blood pressure and boosting the immune system, not to mention mental health help. That’s why California’s Montage Health Ohana campus—a behavioral health center for children and youth, which opened in December—is enveloped by oak trees, rosemary, and lavender plants. Floor-to-ceiling windows mean that 94% of the 16-resident facility (which also has an extensive outpatient program) offers views of hills and mountains, a stark contrast to typically austere clinics. “A lot of those spaces are institutional, cold, and uncomfortable,” says Jonathan Ward, firmwide design leader at NBBJ, which designed the campus for Montage Health. “So we thought, ‘Let’s put nature as the centerpiece.’” These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094602/montage-health-ohana-center/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094602/montage-health-ohana-center/"},"headline":"Montage Health Ohana Center: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024","datePublished":"2024-10-30T11:09:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T11:54:28.268Z","description":"Find out why Montage Health Ohana Center is one of the best inventions of 2024","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094602/montage-health-ohana-center/","keywords":["Tech","E-Commerce","list","franchise","Magazine","best inventions"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21e66ab8ba43449b/698a8a20e6e84a1bfd2b80e5/montage-health-ohana-campus-best-inventions.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jeff Wilser","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jeff-wilser/"}],"creator":"Jeff Wilser","articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21e66ab8ba43449b/698a8a20e6e84a1bfd2b80e5/montage-health-ohana-campus-best-inventions.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094602/montage-health-ohana-center/","name":"Montage Health Ohana Center: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024"}}]}] ```