Gladesville Mental Hospital Nsw
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Gladesville mental hospital nsw. 1 04 06 2020 building community wellbeing. The hospital officially closed in 1993 with the last in patient services ceased in 1997. Mental health matters awards 2018. Wellbeing is a broad term that covers a range of things including quality of life happiness meaning and purpose.
Welcome to one door gladesville support hub one door s support hub is located in the old gladesville hospital a site with a long history of change innovation and progress in mental health care. An integrated emental health ecosystem. On tuesday 10 december 2019 the nsw mental health commission held a memorial to acknowledge and remember the lives of former residents of the gladesville psychiatric hospital on victoria road in gladesville nsw. The gladesville mental hospital formerly known as the tarban creek lunatic asylum was a psychiatric hospital established in 1838 in the suburb of gladesville sydney new south wales in australia.
The integrated mental health atlas of far west new south wales. Nsw mental health commission. Nsw ndis and mental health analysis partnership project. The gladesville hospital cemetery is the final resting place of more than 1 200 former patients and several staff.
The story of gladesville mental hospital is the story of mental health in australia from out of sight out of mind and the belief that mental illness was permanent and untreatable a succession of brave and pioneering staff brought about a revolution in the thinking and in the treatment of mental illness. Gladesville hospital cemetery memorial. Our head office is the hub of our corporate services workforce support and advocacy work.