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Last updated on April 23, 2008

Mission: DDPC provides the highest quality acute psychiatric treatment and rehabilitation services to people with serious mental illnesses in inpatient and outpatient programs.

Vision: The vision of the Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center is to become a model psychiatric treatment and rehabilitation center where multidisciplinary treatment teams work with people empowered to participate in treatment decisions affecting their recovery.

Description:
Clinical and support staff provide a treatment team model of psychosocial rehabilitation, focusing on enhancing patients' strengths, and coping skills, while offering a wide range of modern therapeutic interventions.

DDPC has remained accredited since its initial survey in 1976 by The Joint Commission. It is fully licensed as a hospital by the Maine Department of Human Services and is certified by the Health Care Finance Administration to provide acute psychiatric care.

History:
DDPC was originally constructed to manage the overflow of patients at the Augusta Mental Health Institute. This was an era when the best mental health treatment was genuinely believed to be long-term care within large institutions, where patients could be isolated from the stress of everyday life. Today's treatment philosopy is radically different. DDPC has followed the nationwide approach of brief institutional care, returning patients to their home communities as soon as possible. DDPC is comprised of five inpatient treatment units serving 350 people a year from Penobscot, Piscataquis, Washington, Hancock, and Aroostook counties. Our collaboration with mental health providers in these communities assures that patients' needs are met upon discharge.

Contact person: Melissa Hayward, Chief, Volunteer Services, (phone), (email)
Office fax number: (207) 941-4029

Address:

656 State Street Bangor, ME 04401 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.state.me.us/bds/bmhi/bangormhi/index.htm

Directions:

From State Street: Take a left at the Ronald McDonald House, and proceed up the hill. At the stop sign, go right, following signs to the main entrance. Once inside the main entrance, the Volunteer Office is the first door on the left. From Interstate 95: Take Exit 49 (Hogan Road) (left turn if coming from the north; right turn if coming from the south). Stay straight through traffic lights. At the fire station (on right) take the next right onto the BMHI campus. Follow signs to the main entrance. Once inside main entrance, Volunteer Office is first door on the left.   Nearest Metro/Subway Stop: n/a   Nearest Bus Stop: Bus stop at campus entrance

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