Royal Park Hospital
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Royal Park Psychiatric Hospital, commonly known as Royal Park is a former Receiving House and Psychiatric Hospital located in
Construction and design
The hospital buildings were designed by architect SE Bindley of the Public Works Department in a
History
Royal Park opened as a Receiving House in September 1907. Receiving Houses were used to provide accommodation for those patients who required only short term diagnosis and treatment. No person was to be detained in a receiving house for more than two months in any event. Patients diagnosed as insane were transferred to a Hospital for the Insane such as Kew Asylum or Yarra Bend Asylum by order of the Superintendent of the Receiving House.[2] Following the completion of some of the hospital wards, Royal Park was gazetted as a Receiving House and a Hospital for the Insane on 7 April 1909.[2]
Since its establishment the title of Royal Park Hospital has been altered to reflect both the community's changing attitude towards mental illness and the
A special Military Mental Hospital was opened at Royal Park in 1915. The date range of this hospital is unknown.[2]
Closure and redevelopment
As a consequence of the Victorian Government's policy of deinstitutionalisation, Royal Park Hospital was decommissioned in the 1990s. The old Receiving House has been home to the Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention Centre (EPPIC) since the mid-1990s. Renamed Orygen Youth Health incorporating the EPPIC program. Orygen Youth Health is part of NorthWestern Mental Health which is itself part of Melbourne Health. After the closure of the Royal Park Psychiatric Hospital, inpatient psychiatric services were transferred to the new John Cade Building at RMH City Campus, under the umbrella of NorthWestern Mental Health.
A number of the original hospital buildings were listed on the Victorian Heritage Register (H2606) and were restored and redeveloped as part of the Commonwealth Games Village for the
See also
- List of Australian psychiatric institutions
- John Cade
- Kew Lunatic Asylum
- Kew Cottages
References
- ^ a b Heritage Victoria. "Games Village" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 May 2009. Retrieved 11 December 2008.
- ^ a b c d "Agency VA 2845 Royal Park Psychiatric Hospital". Public Records Office of Victoria. Retrieved 6 October 2008.