The Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center is a psychiatric hospital operated by the state of Maine. It is located at 656 State Street in Bangor, and was previously...

Dorothea Lynde Dix (April 4, 1802 – July 17, 1887) was an American advocate on behalf of the indigent mentally ill who, through a vigorous and sustained...

(OBH) Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) Maine Office of Child and Family Services (OCFS) Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center (DDPC) Office...

Medical Center - Alfond Center for Health Riverview Psychiatric Center (formerly Augusta Mental Health Institute) Bangor, Penobscot County Dorothea Dix Psychiatric...

the stresses of society were important for patient care. Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center (DDPC), Riverview’s sister hospital, is aptly named after this important...

Peabody and Stearns. The Eastern Maine Insane Hospital, now Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center, by John Calvin Stevens. The William Arnold House of 1856,...

the construction of the Eastern Maine Insane Asylum, now the Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center. Instead, it purchased the Mace house with the pledges paid...

facility was conceived in the early 1870s at the persistent lobbying of Dorothea Dix, a nurse who was an advocate for better health care for people with mental...

Spring Grove Hospital Center, formerly known as Spring Grove State Hospital, is a psychiatric hospital located in the Baltimore, Maryland, suburb of Catonsville...

governments. Due in part to the efforts of Dorothea Dix, the term "state hospital" generally refers to a public psychiatric hospital operated by a state government...

who were either living with their family or kept in local almshouses. Dorothea Dix lobbied the state legislature to create a facility in Illinois designed...

facility to care for people with brain diseases in the City of Washington. Dorothea Dix (1802–1887) served as a pioneering advocate for people living with mental...

treatment of patients and greatly influenced Dorothea Dix. Dix advocated the expansion of state psychiatric hospitals for patients who were at the time...

by Dorothea Dix to care for the mentally ill. In the fall of 2016, the old Cherry Hospital facility closed and was replaced by a new psychiatric facility...

enslaved. In the United States, Dorothea Dix was instrumental in opening 32 state asylums to provide quality care for the ill. Dix also was in charge of the...

creation of this hospital, as of many others, was largely the work of Dorothea Lynde Dix, whose philanthropic efforts extended over many states, and in Europe...

state were outraged. Hayes was committed to the Dorothea Dix State Mental Hospital in Raleigh. At Dix, he was given Haldol, a drug often used to reduce...

creation of this hospital, as of many others, was largely the work of Dorothea Lynde Dix, whose philanthropic efforts extended over many states, and in Europe...

States in psychiatry, law, journalism and psychology to work as the Dorothea Dix Think Tank. [citation needed] Brooks was married to Ulista Jean Moser...

of such individuals. Dorothea Dix (1802–1887) was an important figure in the development of the "mental hygiene" movement. Dix was a school teacher who...

mental health facility, the Tennessee Lunatic Asylum, in November 1847, Dorothea Dix urged the state legislature to replace the unfit facility. The new facility...

to build the institution in the city, but this idea was rejected by Dorothea Dix. Construction began in 1859, and opened in 1862. A grand ceremony took...

superintendents of the American Psychiatric Association and well-known mental health advocates such as Thomas Story Kirkbride and Dorothea Dix. Later buildings were...

Reformers like Dorothea Dix began to push for more funding and legislation aimed at creating mental health asylums across the United States. Dix travelled...

to spinning boards and "tranquilizer" chairs. A Boston schoolteacher, Dorothea Dix (1802–1887), also helped make humane care a public and a political concern...

Allison – educator who taught blind veterans at Napa Dorothea Dix – psychiatric reformer Meredith Hodges – psychiatric technician Thomas Story Kirkbride – physician...

and resources for the mentally ill. She is often referred to as the Dorothea Dix of Mexico. Born into a wealthy family that owned a pharmacy chain, Virginia...

architecture" concepts of 1830s activists Thomas Story Kirkbride and Dorothea Dix. Dix's reformist ideas, in particular, are credited as the driving force...

establishment of state mental hospitals in the U.S. is partly due to reformer Dorothea Dix, who testified to the New Jersey legislature in 1844, vividly describing...

"Moral treatment" meant compassionate and understanding treatment. Dorothea Dix, one of America's great philanthropists interested in the better treatment...