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Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center
United States historic place
The Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center is a psychiatric hospital operated by the state of Maine.
Dorothea dix psychiatric center
It is located at State Street in Bangor, and was previously known as the Eastern Maine Insane Asylum and the Bangor Mental Health Institute. It was established in , and the main building on its campus is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Services and coverage area
The Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center provides inpatient and outpatient care to the state's severest mentally ill in an area covering the eastern two-thirds of the state. It has 51 beds, and provides its services to both voluntary and involuntary (court-committed) patients.
Its operations are governed by state legislation, and are overseen by the state's Department of Health and Human Services.[2]
History
Maine's first psychiatric hospital was the Maine Insane Hospital, established in Augusta in That facility was repeatedly en