Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care

Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care
Geography
Location Penetanguishene, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada
Organization
Care system Public Medicare (Canada) (OHIP)
Hospital type Specialist
Services
Beds 301
Specialty Psychiatric hospital
History
Founded 1904
Links
Website Official website
Lists Hospitals in Canada

Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care (French: Waypoint Centre de soins de santé mentale) formerly known as Mental Health Centre Penetanguishene, is a 301-bed psychiatric hospital located on Georgian Bay in the Town of Penetanguishene, approximately 150 kilometres (93 mi) north of Toronto. Waypoint provides both acute and longer-term psychiatric inpatient and outpatient services to Simcoe County, Dufferin County and Muskoka/Parry Sound. In addition, Waypoint provides the province's only high secure forensic hospital for clients served by both the mental health and justice systems.

Oak Ridge

Built in 1933 on the site of an old British military garrison and later Boys Reformatory of Upper Canada[1], Oak Ride served as a forensic mental health care unit for Penetanguishene[2] and demolished in 2014. The psychiatric centre was notorious for torture and use of LSD that lead to its closure.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.oakridgeclassaction.ca/history.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/2009/02/27/penetangs-oak-ridge-being-replaced
  3. ↑ "Treatment at Ontario mental health facility was ‘torture’, judge finds" Author Michelle McQuigge. Publisher The Canadian Press. Date June 8, 2017
  4. ↑ "Doctors tortured patients at Ontario mental-health centre, judge rules" Author Sean Fine. Publisher The Globe and Mail. Date June 07, 2017.

Coordinates: 44°48′03″N 79°55′46″W / 44.800804°N 79.929452°W / 44.800804; -79.929452


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