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Pilgrim Psychiatric Center, formerly known as Pilgrim State Hospital, is a state-run psychiatric hospital located in Brentwood, New York. Nine months after its official opening in 1931, the hospital's patient population was 2,018, as compared with more than 5,000 at the Georgia State Sanitarium in Milledgeville, Georgia. [ 1 ]
Pilgrim PC provides a continuum of inpatient and outpatient psychiatric services. The campus includes several residential agencies including: Central Nassau Guidance Center and Transitional Services. Charles K. Post Addiction Treatment Center.
By 1982, Pilgrim State Psychiatric Center held 596 imprisoned people, moved to relieve overcrowding from jails in Nassau, Suffolk, and Queens. By 1983, they had remodeled the buildings to imprison up to 1,000 people.
While the Kings Park Psychiatric Center which is only a few miles north on the Sagtikos Parkway has become the ultimate ghost town, the Pilgrim Psychiatric Center remains a functioning New York State mental health facility.
Pilgrim Psychiatric Center on Long Island, or the Pilgrim State Hospital as it was once called, was one of four state hospitals built to rectify New York’s overcrowded institutions.
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Part of the Pilgrim Psychiatric Center, a public continuum of inpatient and outpatient psychiatric, residential, and related services comprising a main inpatient center and six outpatient centers throughout Nassau and Suffolk County. For additional information, please click here.
Pilgrim is located off Sagtikos parkway at exits S1 and S2. From the South Shore of Long Island take Southern State Parkway East to Sagtikos Parkway North. The Pilgrim exit is S2. There are two routes from the north shore. Take LIE east to exit 53 south (Sagtikos Parkway) to exit S1.
Eventually, the state of New York bought up more land to the southwest of the facility to construct Edgewood State Hospital, a short-lived stand-alone facility that operated under Pilgrim's umbrella. In fact, Pilgrim State was so large that it reached into four Suffolk townships- Huntington, Babylon, Smithtown and Islip- and had two major state ...
Discover Pilgrim Psychiatric Center in Brentwood, New York: A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.