Ypsilanti Mental Hospital
Sought to close all the state s mental hospitals.
Ypsilanti mental hospital. I had been hired to set up the new admitting unit and to site and staff the first halfway houses in the town of ypsilanti. Of the state s original 28 mental hospitals only three for adults and one for children remain in operation. Of the state s original 28 mental hospitals only three for adults and one for children remain in operation. In a state wide effort to close every mental hospital in michigan during the early 1990s ypsilanti regional psychiatric hospital was one of the first to close in 1991.
State archive of michigan. From emu in 1970. He graduated from eastern michigan university with a b s. Coordinates the ypsilanti state hospital housed and treated patients for mental health disorders the hospital complex was located at the northeast corner of platt and willis roads in york charter township.
The center for forensic psychiatry remained open on the yrph campus to treat criminals under psychiatric evaluation until the early 2000s where it moved to the new facility nearby. In occupational therapy in 1960 received his o t. We were sending them home from the state hospital aka the start of homelessness. Under engler state mental health director james haveman jr.
Certification in 1961 and his m a. Ypsilanti state hospital by now renamed ypsilanti regional psychiatric hospital was one of the first to go closed in 1991. Sought to close all the state s mental hospitals. All of the hospital buildings were demolished by c.
It has now been demolished after lying abandoned for a number of years and falling into a dangerous state of disrepair. A small portion of ypsilanti state hospital remained in use as the center for forensic psychiatry until 2005 when a new building for the center for forensic psychiatry just north of the old hospital was opened. The city of saline was four miles due west of the hospital on. Ypsilanti state hospital was a facility for those with mental health problems just outside saline michigan.
The ypsilanti regional psychiatric hospital closed in 1991. Russ was employed by the michigan department of mental health ypsilanti regional psychiatric hospital retiring after 30 years of service in 1991. Ypsilanti state hospital by now renamed ypsilanti regional psychiatric hospital was one of the first to go closed in 1991. From the description of committee records and minutes of the ypsilanti regional psychiatric hospital 1975 1991.
Ypsilanti state hospital by now renamed ypsilanti regional psychiatric hospital was one of the first to go closed in 1991. Under engler state mental health director james haveman jr. People with mental illness were going to live out in the community now.