Lake Alice Hospital
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| Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital | |
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| Location | |
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| Place | Lake Alice,Rangitikei (NZ) |
| Organisation | |
| Care System | Public |
| Hospital Type | Psychiatric |
| Services | |
| Emergency Dept. | No |
| Beds | Unknown |
| History | |
| Founded | August 1950 |
| Closed | 1999 |
| Links | |
| Website | Unknown |
| See also | Hospitals in New Zealand |
Lake Alice Hospital was a rural psychiatric facility near Bulls in Rangitikei, New Zealand. It was opened in August 1950, and has a Maximum Security unit.
Like many New Zealand psychiatric hospitals, Lake Alice was self-sufficient, with its own farm, workshop, bakery, laundry, and fire station. It also had swimming pools as well as glasshouses and vegetable gardens.
The facility slowly shut down during the mid 90's, it finally shut it's doors in October 1999. The buildings and 56-hectare grounds were purchased in July, 2006 by an undisclosed buyer.[1]
Plans to develop the former psychiatric hospital are currently on hold. It was confirmed in the Manawatu Standard on 22 May 2008 that the property is to be developed and subdivided.[[1]]
Former patients of the hospital's child and adolescent unit have made allegations of abuse there during the 1970s, including the use of electroconvulsive therapy and paraldehyde injections as punishment.[2] The New Zealand government issued a formal apology in 2001, and has paid out a total of NZ$10.7 million in compensation to 183 former patients.[3][4] The former head of the unit gave up the practice of medicine in order to forestall a disciplinary hearing by the Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria.[4]
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[edit] References
- ^ Miller, Grant. "Buyer and Price of Lake Alice a Mystery", Manuwatu Standard, July 27, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-04-01.
- ^ Murphy, Padraic. "Probe on Shock Doctor Claims", The Age, July 11, 2003. Retrieved on 2007-04-01.
- ^ Johnson, Martin. "Psychiatrist Must Pay $55,000 After Sex Abuse Case", The New Zealand Herald, August 29, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-04-01.
- ^ a b Johnson, Martin. "Lake Alice Doctor Pre-empts Tribunal", The New Zealand Herald, July 21, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-04-01.
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