Inside Riverview Mental Hospital
In december 2015 the provincial government announced plans to replace the obsolete buildings with new mental health facilities scheduled to open in about 2019.
Inside riverview mental hospital. I think people still live in some of. An old closed down insane asylum that operated for many years. So i went to see the old riverview mental hospital grounds for my first time. Mental health and addiction services at the riverview hospital lands will be reborn with the provincial government s decision to proceed with the opening of a new state of the art mental health and addictions facility at the site.
And those gas pumps. It is very dangerous. This was the state of maine s first effort to incorporate peer support services into a psychiatric facility. Today we decided to do it again and go in and explore.
Riverview hospital was a canadian mental health facility located in coquitlam british columbia it operated under the governance of bc mental health addiction services when it closed in july 2012. From its inception in 1904 riverview was intended to serve as both a mental health facility accommodating overflow from victoria s royal jubilee hospital and as a botanical garden for the. This morning i was working in a pump station underground beside the old locked up hospital building. Original poster 1 point 6 years ago.
Theresa balfour who was a patient at riverview hospital a former mental health facility from 2006 2007 and is against the reopening walks along fern terrace on the riverview hospital grounds. Government is currently holding public open houses to determine what should happen to. Posted by 6. They declined our requests for an on air interview.
Amistad operates a peer support program inside riverview psychiatric center the former augusta mental health institute maine s largest state psychiatric hospital. Does the bus still loop up around there. This halloween jack s mourning gory with kiah tara jean investigate the ghostly apparition that appeared in this photo taken inside riverview hospital approximately 10 years ago. We explored this hospital a few months ago but never went in.
Riverview closed in 2012 and has sat largely empty except for three small mental health facilities. The energy and the vibe here are always noticeable. My husband d rock first acquired the photo from a young woman he met at work she says her and a friend had skipped school to go to riverview and take photos.