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Manatee Glens, a private behavioral health hospital and outpatient facility, has often been a local leader in adapting to health care industry changes.

The nonprofit organization, for example, began to use electronic prescriptions in 2007 and transferred to electronic health records in 2009. And president and CEO Mary Ruiz has long championed the idea that patients should feel like they are at a Ritz-Carlton, not an institution — another recent national trend. “The experience of health care is no one's idea of a good time,” Ruiz says. “It sucks, actually.”

Now Manatee Glens has another trendsetting move, with a new hospital psychiatry residency program. It's a partnership with the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, which has a campus in east Manatee County. The Manatee Glens residency program, one of seven Osteopathic medicine programs in the country, will begin in summer 2014. Manatee Glens, the first private nonprofit psychiatric hospital in the country to have its own medical residency program, will accept three doctors a year who will stay for four years.