Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care

Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care
Geography
Location	Penetanguishene, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada
Organization
Care system	Public Medicare (Canada) (OHIP)
Type	Specialist
Services
Beds	301
Specialty	Psychiatric hospital
History
Opened	15 August 1904
Links
Website	Official website
Lists	Hospitals in Canada

Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care (French: Waypoint Centre de soins de santé mentale) formerly known as Mental Health Centre Penetanguishene, is a 301-bed psychiatric hospital located on Georgian Bay in the Town of Penetanguishene, approximately 150 kilometres (93 mi) north of Toronto. Waypoint provides both acute and longer-term psychiatric inpatient and outpatient services to Simcoe County, Dufferin County and Muskoka/Parry Sound. In addition, Waypoint provides the province's only high secure forensic hospital for clients served by both the mental health and justice systems. In the 1960s the hospital began to treat patients such as Peter Woodcock with LSD (otherwise known as 'acid'),^[1] another form of treatment included the STU program.