Edgewood State Hospital | |
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Geography | |
Location | Deer Park, New York, United States |
Coordinates | 40°46′34″N 73°18′34″W / 40.776191°N 73.309463°W |
Organization | |
Type | Tubercular/Psychiatric hospital |
Patron | New York State |
Network | New York State |
Services | |
Emergency department | Yes |
Beds | 700-900 |
History | |
Opened | 1940s |
Closed | 1971 |
Demolished | 1989 |
Links | |
Lists | Hospitals in New York State |
Edgewood State Hospital was a tubercular/psychiatric hospital complex that formerly stood in Deer Park, New York, on Long Island. It was one of four state mental asylums built on Long Island (the others being Kings Park State Hospital, Central Islip State Hospital, and Pilgrim State Hospital), and was the last one of the four to be built.