Spring Grove Hospital Center

Spring Grove Hospital Center
Map
Geography
Location55 Wade Ave, Catonsville, Maryland, United States
Coordinates39°15′53″N 76°43′21″W / 39.26472°N 76.72250°W / 39.26472; -76.72250
Organization
FundingGovernment hospital
TypePsychiatric hospital
Affiliated universityUniversity of Maryland
Services
Beds425
History
Opened1797
Links
Websitehttps://health.maryland.gov/springgrove/Pages/home.aspx
ListsHospitals in Maryland
The Spring Grove campus as it appears today.
1853 architect's rendering of the proposed new buildings for the Maryland Hospital for the Insane at Spring Grove. Construction was completed in 1872, though the buildings were eventually demolished in 1963.

Spring Grove Hospital Center, formerly known as Spring Grove State Hospital, is a psychiatric hospital located in the Baltimore, Maryland, suburb of Catonsville.

Founded in 1797 as a general medical and psychiatric retreat, Spring Grove Mental Hospital is the second oldest continuously operating psychiatric hospital in the United States. Today, the hospital operates 425 beds [1] and has approximately 800 admissions and discharges a year. Service lines include adult and adolescent acute psychiatric admissions, long term inpatient care, medical-psychiatric hospitalization, forensic evaluation services, inpatient psychiatric research, and assisted living services. The land on which the hospital currently sits was transferred to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in May 2022. The hospital grounds are also the location of the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center which is renowned for its research into the causes of schizophrenia.

Richard Sprigg Steuart, who championed construction of the facility at Spring Grove.
  1. ^ "Spring Grove Hospital Center". State of Maryland.