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The Terrence Building is an abandoned high-rise building and former psychiatric hospital in the Azalea neighborhood of Rochester, New York.Opened in 1959, the 16-story tower was once the home of the Rochester State Hospital, serving as a mental ward that boasted 1,000 beds until it closed in 1995.
The Kings Park Psychiatric Center, known by Kings Park locals as "The Psych Center", is a former state-run psychiatric hospital located in Kings Park, New York. [1] It operated from 1885 until 1996, when the State of New York closed the facility, releasing its few remaining patients or transferring them to the still-operational Pilgrim ...
The Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane is a former state hospital in Willard, New York, United States, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1865 the Legislature authorized the establishment of The Willard Asylum for the Insane. [2] [3] Opened in 1869, the asylum offered low-cost custodial care. [4]
In 1886, a New York State legislative commission recommended the purchase of the 246-acre (100 ha) Dates Farm in the village of Matteawan for $25,000. The site was rural, yet accessible by rail and offered good tillable land, pure water and pleasant scenery between the Hudson River and the Fishkill Mountains.
Edgewood State Hospital was a tubercular/psychiatric hospital complex that formerly stood in Deer Park, New York, on Long Island.It was one of four state mental asylums built on Long Island (the others being Kings Park State Hospital, Central Islip State Hospital, and Pilgrim State Hospital), and was the last one of the four to be built.
The Central Islip Psychiatric Center, formerly State Hospital for the Insane, was a state psychiatric hospital in Central Islip, New York, United States from 1889 until 1996. The center was one of the four major hospital "farms" in central Long Island to house the sick from New York City ; the others were Kings Park , Pilgrim State Hospital ...
Nurses staged a strike at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan in January 2023. It led to a contract deal being struck that included staffing minimums, which an arbitrator later determined were not met ...
Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center is a maximum-security facility for the mentally ill on Wards Island in New York City, [1] operated by the New York State Office of Mental Health as one of two psychiatric hospitals in the state that treat felony patients. [2] The building, described as "fortresslike", is adjacent to the Manhattan Psychiatric ...