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The Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center is a psychiatric hospital operated by the state of Maine.It is located at 656 State Street in Bangor, and was previously known as the Eastern Maine Insane Asylum and the Bangor Mental Health Institute.
Central Maine Medical Center: Central Maine Healthcare Lewiston: Androscoggin: Yes (Level III) c. 1860 –present Active: Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center: Department of Health and Human Services Bangor: Penobscot: No 1895–present Active - Behavioral health Down East Community Hospital Independent: Machias: Washington Yes Active: Franklin ...
The hospital trustees made plans to approach the Maine State Legislature to request funding, as over 2/3 of the patients being admitted were from outside of Bangor, but the plans were abandoned to allow for the money to fund the construction of the Eastern Maine Insane Asylum, now the Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center. Instead, it purchased the ...
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The Dorothea Dix Hospital was the first North Carolina psychiatric hospital, located on Dix Hill in Raleigh, North Carolina, and named after mental health advocate Dorothea Dix from New England. It was founded in 1856 and closed in 2012. The site is now designated as Dorothea Dix Park and serves as Raleigh's largest city park.
Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center (DDPC), Riverview’s sister hospital, is named after this early advocate for Maine’s mental health services in Maine. Dr. Cyrus Knapp was the first Superintendent of the Hospital (12/28/1840 Report on the Warrant in Favor of Dr. Cyrus Knapp, Superintendent of the Insane Hospital; Maine State Archives File ...
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