Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center

Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center[1][2] is a psychiatric hospital located in Utica.[3] Its predecessor was established in 1836.[4]

Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center
Utica State Hospital
Geography
LocationNew York, United States
Organization
FundingGovernment hospital
TypeSpecialist
Services
SpecialityPsychiatric
History
Former name(s)Utica State Hospital
Opened1836
Links
Websiteomh.ny.gov/omhweb/facilities/mvpc/
ListsHospitals in New York

History

Mohawk Valley Psychiatric was once called Utica State Hospital; the latter was a lunatic asylum.[1] This haven for the insane[5] was highlighted in 1999 as among New York's "shrinking hospitals for the mentally ill for years. An empty corridor."[6]

Utica State Hospital

Utica State Hospital[5][7] was one of the first hospitals of its type in the United States.[4][8] It was initially named The New York Lunatic Asylum.[9][8] To rehabilitate some of its patients "a printing shop was established." In 1844 they published "American Journal of Insanity, the world's first journal devoted to mental illness."[9]

"McPike Addiction Treatment Center is a 68-bed inpatient facility located in Utica, New York, on the campus of the Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center (MVPC)."[10]

See also

References
Utica State Hospital gateway plaque
  1. Tracie Rozhon (November 18, 1998). "A Fight to Preserve Abandoned Asylums; Sales Seen as Threat to Landmarks Of Architecture and Idealism". New York Times. the Utica State Hospital, now called the Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center
  2. "Amanda Belt, Alan Alsheimer Jr. - The New York Times". New York Times. September 23, 2007.
  3. Phillip Lutz (April 3, 1988). "Mental Patients Transferred to L.I." New York Times. Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center in Utica
  4. "THE INSANE OF NEW YORK; Annual Report of the State Commission in Lunacy. SOME INTERESTING STATISTICS Much Cheaper Entertaining the Insane by the State Than Under the Old and Abandoned System". New York Times. October 13, 1895.
  5. "DOCTOR ENDS HIS LIFE; Former Utica State Hospital Head". New York Times. February 15, 1953.
  6. Joe Sharkey (June 6, 1999). "Mental Illness Hits the Money Trail". New York Times.
  7. "UTICA HOSPITAL SHOCKS ROOSEVELT; Governor Says Overcrowding at State Insane Institution is Disgraceful. KNIGHT WILL JOIN TOUR Senate Leader Invited as Executive Announces He Will Renew Effort for Appropriations. Alcoholic Patients Increase. Praised Care of Children". New York Times. July 9, 1929.
  8. "United States Hospital Main Building". passage March, 1836, of 'An Act to Authorize the Establishment of the New York Lunatic Asylum'
  9. "APA Historical Database: Selected Entries". Retrieved May 25, 2021.
  10. "McPike Addiction Treatment Center".


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