Creedmoor State Hospital - Revision history

M-Explorer at 20:47, 28 April 2026

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	==Videos==		==Videos==
	*The following hour long film created by CBS in 1978 entitled "Anyplace But Here" follows a few people from their time in Creedmoor State Hospital to their discharge out into the community.		*The following hour long film created by CBS in 1978 entitled "Anyplace But Here" follows a few people from their time in Creedmoor State Hospital to their discharge out into the community.
			**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ3GcHZ4_pQ 1978 Creedmoor State Hospital Documentary "Any Place But Here"]
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	*The following hour long film created by CBS in 1978 entitled "Anyplace But Here" follows a few people from their time in Creedmoor State Hospital to their discharge out into the community.		*The following hour long film created by CBS in 1978 entitled "Anyplace But Here" follows a few people from their time in Creedmoor State Hospital to their discharge out into the community.

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	*The following hour long film created by CBS in 1978 entitled "Anyplace But Here" follows a few people from their time in Creedmoor State Hospital to their discharge out into the community.		*The following hour long film created by CBS in 1978 entitled "Anyplace But Here" follows a few people from their time in Creedmoor State Hospital to their discharge out into the community.

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	*The following hour long film created by CBS in 1978 entitled "Anyplace But Here" follows a few people from their time in Creedmoor State Hospital to their discharge out into the community.		*The following hour long film created by CBS in 1978 entitled "Anyplace But Here" follows a few people from their time in Creedmoor State Hospital to their discharge out into the community.

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			==Videos==
			*The following hour long film created by CBS in 1978 entitled "Anyplace But Here" follows a few people from their time in Creedmoor State Hospital to their discharge out into the community.

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	\| peak_patient_population =		\| peak_patient_population =
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			*Brooklyn State Hospital-Creedmoor Division
	*Creedmoor Psychiatric Center		*Creedmoor Psychiatric Center
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	\| building_style = [[Cottage Planned Institutions\|Cottage Plan]]		\| building_style = [[Cottage Planned Institutions\|Cottage Plan]]
	\| architect(s) =		\| architect(s) =
	\| location =		\| location = Jamaica, Queens, NY
	\| architecture_style =		\| architecture_style =
	\| peak_patient_population =		\| peak_patient_population =
	\| alternate_names =Creedmoor Psychiatric Center		\| alternate_names =<br>
			*Creedmoor Psychiatric Center
	}}		}}

	==History==		==History==
	Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens Village, Queens, New York, provides inpatient, outpatient and residential services for severely mentally ill patients. The history of the hospital and its campus, which occupies more than 300 acres (1.2 km²) and includes more than 50 buildings, reflects both the urbanization of the borough of Queens, New York, and a series of changes in psychiatric care.		Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens Village, Queens, New York, provides inpatient, outpatient and residential services for severely mentally ill patients. The history of the hospital and its campus, which occupies more than 300 acres (1.2 km²) and includes more than 50 buildings, reflects both the urbanization of the borough of Queens, New York, and a series of changes in psychiatric care.
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	===History of the Hospital===		===History of the Hospital===
	~~In 1912,~~ the ~~Farm Colony of~~ Brooklyn State Hospital ~~was opened~~, with 32 patients, ~~at Creedmoor by~~ the ~~Lunacy Commission~~ of ~~New York State~~, ~~reflecting a trend toward sending~~ the ~~swelling population of urban psychiatric patients~~ to the ~~fresh air~~ of ~~outlying areas~~. By 1918, Creedmoor’s own census had swollen to 150, housed in the abandoned National Guard barracks. By 1959, the hospital housed 7,000 inpatients. Creedmoor is described as an overcrowded, understaffed, depressing institution in Susan Sheehan's Is There No Place On Earth For Me? (1982), a biography of a patient pseudonymously called Sylvia Frumkin.		Creedmoor State Hospital opened as the farm colony for Brooklyn State Hospital (now Kingsboro), with 32 patients who worked the farmland as part of their treatment, and to ease the expense of their room and board. This was a time when fresh air, physical labor, and rural living were thought to be the best cures for diseases as wide ranging as hysteria and dementia. A self-sustaining community was developed, and to this day many lament the cessation of such programs.

			By 1918, Creedmoor’s own census had swollen to 150, housed in the abandoned National Guard barracks. By 1959, the hospital housed 7,000 inpatients. Strange anecdotes regarding Creedmoor and the surrounding areas populated the New York Times’ archives far before deinstitutionalization. The hospital came under scrutiny in the 1940s after a dysentery outbreak due to unsanitary living conditions in the wards. One article tells of a 26-year-old German man with a foot-long beard caught living as a hermit in the woods near Creedmoor in 1931 (police prepared him a steak dinner after arrest). A 1953 article reported two mentally deranged patients overpowering an attendant and escaping Creedmoor, avoiding capture despite a 13-state police alarm. Creedmoor is described as an overcrowded, understaffed, depressing institution in Susan Sheehan's Is There No Place On Earth For Me? (1982), a biography of a patient pseudonymously called Sylvia Frumkin.

			By 1974, the hospital was completely out of control, with on-campus crime reaching horrifying numbers: three rapes, 22 assaults, 52 fires, 130 burglaries, six suicides, a shooting, a riot, and an attempted murder occurred within 20 months of each other. And then, in 1984, a patient died after being restrained in a straitjacket and beaten by a staff member with a blackjack.

			Staff members reported terrible conditions during this time: being locked in the violent ward, outnumbered by men committed for violent abuse moved to Creedmoor straight from prison, and having to sneak weapons into work for self-defense. A 1977 article tells of one patient who, despite being committed due to stabbing his wife 60 times in the chest and strangling his child with an electric cord, was allowed to freely wander the grounds until the day he casually escaped. Furthermore, this was not an infrequent problem, as Creedmoor maintains an open gate policy despite its solid population of criminals convicted for violent crimes.

	The hospital's census had declined by the early sixties, however, as the introduction of new medications, along with other factors, led to the deinstitutionalization of many psychiatric patients around the world. By 2006, parts of the Creedmoor campus had been sold and the inpatient census was down to 470.		The hospital's census had declined by the early sixties, however, as the introduction of new medications, along with other factors, led to the deinstitutionalization of many psychiatric patients around the world. By 2006, parts of the Creedmoor campus had been sold and the inpatient census was down to 470. Today Creedmoor is divided into two sections by Union Turnpike, with the state Office of Mental Health’s psychiatric center in the north. The south campus is home to a number of different programs — some run by various state offices, others by independent nonprofits — many of which provide outpatient services to people with substance-abuse, psychiatric and/or developmental-disability issues.

	===Programs===		===Programs===
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	==Images==		==Images==
			{{image gallery\|[[Creedmoor State Hospital Image Gallery\|Creedmoor State Hospital]]}}

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	File:Creedmoor Psychiatric Center 2L.jpg		File:Creedmoor Psychiatric Center 2L.jpg
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	File:Crpc.jpg		File:Crpc.jpg
	File:Creedmoor01.png		File:Creedmoor01.png
	File:Creedmoor02.png		File:Creedmoor02.png
	File:Creedmoor03.png		File:Creedmoor03.png
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	</gallery>		</gallery>

			==Links==
			*[http://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/18/nyregion/fear-and-brutality-in-a-creedmoor-ward.html 1984 New York Times article]
			*[https://www.omh.ny.gov/omhweb/facilities/crpc/facility.htm Facility Website]

			[[Category:New York]]
	[[Category:Active Institution]]		[[Category:Active Institution]]
	[[Category:Cottage Plan]]		[[Category:Cottage Plan]]
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	\| alternate_names =~~<br>~~		\| alternate_names =Creedmoor Psychiatric Center
	*Creedmoor Psychiatric Center
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	==History==		==History==