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Austen Riggs Center | |
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Geography | |
Location | Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States |
Coordinates | 42°16′59.1″N 73°18′47.9″W / 42.283083°N 73.313306°W |
Organization | |
Funding | Non-profit hospital |
Type | Specialist |
Affiliated university | Cambridge Health Alliance, Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine |
Services | |
Standards | Joint Commission |
Beds | 74 |
Speciality | Open psychiatric care center |
Public transit access | BRTA |
History | |
Opened | July 21, 1919 |
Links | |
Website | http://www.austenriggs.org/ |
Lists | Hospitals in Massachusetts |
The Austen Riggs Center is a psychiatric treatment facility located in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1913 as the Stockbridge Institute for the Study and Treatment of Psychoneuroses by Austen Fox Riggs. The institution was renamed in his honor on July 21, 1919.