Nashville State Hospital

Nashville State Hospital, originally known as the Central State Hospital for the Insane and later the Middle Tennessee Mental Health Institute is a psychiatric hospital located in Nashville, Tennessee.

History

After visiting Tennessee's first mental health facility in November 1847, Dorothea Dix urged the state legislature to replace the unfit facility. The new facility, named Central State Hospital for the Insane, opened in 1852 in southeast Nashville, Tennessee on the southwest corner of present-day Murfreesboro Road and Donelson Pike near Nashville International Airport. Formerly the location for Vanderbilt University's Tennessee Neurological Institute which opened in 1963.

The hospital buildings were demolished in order for Dell Inc. to build a large call center and manufacturing facility which opened in mid-2000.

External links

[http://www.rootsweb.com/~asylums/nashville/index.html Nashville State Hospital (Historic Asylums)]
[http://www.cwu.edu/~warren/calendar/cal0301.html March 1 in Psychology]