page_title: Margaret and Charles Juravinski Centre
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Margaret and Charles Juravinski Centre / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Entrance sign at the Margaret &amp; Charles Juravinski Centre
context_page_description: The Margaret and Charles Juravinski Centre offers regional psychiatric care and research in Hamilton, Ontario and to the south-central Ontario population.
context_section_description: Like many of the old psychiatric hospitals in Ontario, the Juravinski Centre replaced the ancient and obsolete Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital.  Remnants of a patchwork of old buildings, tunnels and monuments are still in service and serve as remembrance to days gone by.
  Originally called the Hamilton Hospital for the Insane, later renamed to the Ontario Hospital and finally the Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital before transfer of operations.  The asylum began operation in 1876 with 202 patients, originally a population considered 'inebriated'.
  The hospital was isolated but was mostly self-sufficient including a farm, bakery, greenhouse, butcher's shop, root cellar, tailor's shop, sewing room, fire hall, upholstery shop, power house, a bowling green, tennis courts and chapel along with a fleet of vehicles to transport the nearly 915 patients and 119 employees it housed by 1890.
  At the turn of the century, the hospital commissioned a training school for psychiatric nursing and by 1956 had graduated over 240 nurses.
  The Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital was owned and operated by the Ontario government for over 124 years. By November 2000, St. Joseph's Healthcare-Hamilton gained control and has been operating as the Margaret and Charles Juravinski Centre under the auspices of St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton.
  Programmes at this McMaster University Campus contribute to a reduction in disability and the stigma that often comes attached to diagnosis of mental illness or addiction.
  West 5th (based on the street the hospital occupies), as it is colloquially known, concentrates on early intervention, outreach services, rehabilitation, recovery and integration into the community.
caption: Entrance sign at the Margaret & Charles Juravinski Centre
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