Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center

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Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center
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Utica State Hospital
Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center
Geography
LocationNew York, United States
Organization
Funding Government hospital
Type Specialist
Services
SpecialityPsychiatric
History
Former name(s)Utica State Hospital
Opened1836
Links
Website omh.ny.gov/omhweb/facilities/mvpc/
Lists Hospitals in New York

Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center [1] [2] is a state-run psychiatric hospital located in Utica, New York.

Facilities

Utica State Hospital was founded in 1836 and opened in 1843. [3] It was New York State's first state-run mental health facility, and one of the first of its kind in the United States. The building was closed in 1977, and is now used for records storage. [4] [3] [5]

The McPike Addiction Treatment Center is a 68-bed inpatient facility. [6]

The center runs a special education school for grades 4 through 12. [7]

The center's inpatient psychiatric unit closed in 2012. [8] [9]

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References

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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. 1 2 "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.
  4. Phillip Lutz (April 3, 1988). "Mental Patients Transferred to L.I." New York Times . Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center in Utica
  5. "United States Hospital Main Building". passage March, 1836, of 'An Act to Authorize the Establishment of the New York Lunatic Asylum'
  6. "McPike Addiction Treatment Center".
  7. "Search for Public Schools - School Detail for MOHAWK VALLEY PSYCHIATRIC CENTER FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH". nces.ed.gov. Retrieved July 26, 2023.
  8. "Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center: The Aftermath". WUTR/WFXV. February 5, 2013. Retrieved July 26, 2023.
  9. "Region still struggling to care for mentally ill after closure of psych center". Utica Observer Dispatch. November 22, 2015. Retrieved July 26, 2023.

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