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| construction_ended = | | construction_ended = | ||
| opened = 1856 | | opened = 1856 | ||
− | | closed = | + | | closed = |
− | | demolished = | + | | demolished = |
− | | current_status = [[ | + | | current_status = [[Active Institution|Active]] |
− | | building_style = [[ | + | | building_style = [[Kirkbride Planned Institutions|Kirkbride Plan]] |
| architect(s) = Alexander T. Davis | | architect(s) = Alexander T. Davis | ||
| location = | | location = | ||
| architecture_style = Romanesque | | architecture_style = Romanesque | ||
| peak_patient_population = | | peak_patient_population = | ||
− | | alternate_names = | + | | alternate_names = |
− | + | Insane Hospital of North Carolina | |
− | + | Dix Hill | |
− | + | The State Hospital at Raleigh | |
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Other institutions-regional, county-based and local are now are an integral part of the state-wide program for mental health, currently functioning under the Division of Mental Health Services of the North Carolina Department of Human Resources. The original geographical area of responsibility has been reduced from all of North Carolina to that being the psychiatric hospital for the seventeen-county of South Central Region, under the general supervision of a regional director and the direction of the hospital director. In its Division of Forensic Services, Dorothea Dix Hospital continues to serve the whole state in dealing with questions and problems raised in the courts relative to mental illness. It also provides neurological, medical and surgical services for cases that are referred to it by other mental health institutions in parts of the state. Professional and technical training and clinical psychiatric research are major factors in the hospital's mission and a continuing effort is made to keep the ratio of staff to patients at a level to insure effective treatment and care. | Other institutions-regional, county-based and local are now are an integral part of the state-wide program for mental health, currently functioning under the Division of Mental Health Services of the North Carolina Department of Human Resources. The original geographical area of responsibility has been reduced from all of North Carolina to that being the psychiatric hospital for the seventeen-county of South Central Region, under the general supervision of a regional director and the direction of the hospital director. In its Division of Forensic Services, Dorothea Dix Hospital continues to serve the whole state in dealing with questions and problems raised in the courts relative to mental illness. It also provides neurological, medical and surgical services for cases that are referred to it by other mental health institutions in parts of the state. Professional and technical training and clinical psychiatric research are major factors in the hospital's mission and a continuing effort is made to keep the ratio of staff to patients at a level to insure effective treatment and care. | ||
− | In his 1874 hospital report, Superintendent Eugene Grissom wrote: "It was discovered that the insane were not beasts and demons, but men whom disease had left disarmed and wounded in the struggle of life and whom, not | + | In his 1874 hospital report, Superintendent Eugene Grissom wrote: "It was discovered that the insane were not beasts and demons, but men whom disease had left disarmed and wounded in the struggle of life and whom, not unoften, some good Samaritan might lift up, and pour in oil and wine, and set anew on their journey rejoicing."<ref>[http://www.dhhs.state.nc.us/mhddsas/DIX/history.html http://www.dhhs.state.nc.us/mhddsas/DIX/history.html]</ref> |
− | + | == Images of Dorothea Dix State Hospital == | |
− | + | {{image gallery|[[Dorothea Dix State Hospital Image Gallery|Dorothea Dix State Hospital]]}} | |
− | == Images of Dorothea Dix Hospital == | ||
− | {{image gallery|[[Dorothea Dix Hospital Image Gallery|Dorothea Dix Hospital]]}} | ||
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