Monday, March 08, 2004

Advocates seek lost AMHI graves (Maine)
Kennebec Journal story - "Maine advocates for the mentally ill have joined efforts in more than 20 other states to identify and honor patients who died and were buried at state psychiatric hospitals such as the Augusta Mental Health Institute -- and often were forgotten later. Identifying those buried at public psychiatric hospitals in other states has brought a sense of worth to those involved who suffer from mental illness, said Patricia E. Deegan, a leader in the national movement of people with psychiatric disabilities to restore graves at state hospitals." See also A better place to get better in the Portland Press Journal - "After 163 years, the Augusta Mental Health Institute will be moving patients into a new building, called Riverview Psychiatric Center, later this month."