Spring Grove Hospital Center
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Spring Grove Hospital Center, formerly known as Spring Grove State Hospital, is a mental hospital located in the Baltimore, Maryland suburb of Catonsville.
Founded in 1797, Spring Grove is the second oldest continuously operating psychiatric hospital in the United States. Today, the hospital operates 446 beds 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 facility is owned and operated by the State of Maryland and is the location of the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center which is renowned for its research into the causes of, and best treatments for, schizophrenia.
Until the late 1960's, Spring Grove State Hospital had a semi - professional baseball team that played at the hospital's Weltmer Bowl.
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