Selkirk Mental Health Centre - Selkirk MB
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PeterNoG
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The Selkirk Mental Health Centre is on Manitoba Avenue at Easton Drive on the north side of Selkirk, Manitoba.
Waymark Code: WMDDV5
Location: Manitoba, Canada
Date Posted: 12/31/2011
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The "Manitoba Insane Asylum" opened on this site in May 25, 1886. That original building was demolished in 1978. Various name changes reflect the changes in attitude, philosophy and function and mark the course of progress in the care and treatment of the mentally ill.
Manitoba Insane Asylum (1886), Selkirk Insane Hospital (1910), Selkirk Hospital for Mental Diseases (1919) and Selkirk Mental Health Centre (1973).
~ from their website ~
Selkirk Mental Health Centre (SMHC) is a 252-bed facility that provides long-term mental health inpatient treatment, acquired brain injury inpatient treatment and rehabilitation services to residents of Manitoba whose challenging needs cannot be met elsewhere in the provincial health care system.
Selkirk Mental Health CentreSMHC also provides short-term (acute) inpatient mental health services to Manitoba residents living in regions without locally available acute in-patient mental health facilities, as well as persons from the Territory of Nunavut.
Services are provided through the Centre’s Acute, Geriatric, Rehabilitation, Forensic and Acquired Brain Injury Programs.
Address:
825 Manitoba Avenue
Selkirk, MB Canada
R1A 2B5
Website: [Web Link]
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