Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center

Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center
Utica State Hospital
Geography
Location	New York, United States
Organization
Funding	Government hospital
Type	Specialist
Services
Speciality	Psychiatric
History
Former name(s)	Utica State Hospital
Opened	1836
Links
Website	omh.ny.gov/omhweb/facilities/mvpc/
Lists	Hospitals in New York State

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 hospital opened a division in nearby Marcy, New York in 1922. Marcy State Hospital was made an independent entity in 1931. In 1974 it became the Marcy Psychiatric Center, and in 1985 was merged back into the Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center. ^[6]

The McPike Addiction Treatment Center is a 68-bed inpatient facility. ^[7]

The center runs a special education school for grades 4 through 12. ^[8]

The center's inpatient psychiatric unit closed in 2012. ^{[9] [10]}

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. "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. "Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center Historical Files B1582". iarchives.nysed.gov. December 4, 1922. Retrieved March 5, 2025.
7. "McPike Addiction Treatment Center".
8. "Search for Public Schools - School Detail for MOHAWK VALLEY PSYCHIATRIC CENTER FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH". nces.ed.gov. Retrieved July 26, 2023.
9. "Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center: The Aftermath". WUTR/WFXV. February 5, 2013. Retrieved July 26, 2023.
10. "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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