Mercywood Sanitarium
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| Mercywood Sanitarium | |
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| Opened | 1924 |
| Closed | 1994 |
| Current Status | Demolished |
| Building Style | Single Building |
| Location | Ann Arbor, MI |
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History
Founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1924 to help those suffering from mental illness, Mercywood quickly grew from nine to forty beds with the 1926 opening of a hospital building on the eighty-acre site on Jackson Road. It operated there for sixty years and grew to more than 100 beds before moving to a new building on the Saint Joseph Mercy Health System campus east of Ann Arbor in 1986; Mercywood closed in 1994 after insurers drastically reduced payments for in-patient mental health care.
