Dorothea Dix played an instrumental role in the founding or expansion of more than 30 hospitals for the treatment of the mentally ill. She was a leading figure in those national and international movements that challenged the idea that people with mental disturbances could not be cured or helped.
Demolition on the first of four buildings of the former Dorothea Dix Hospital will begin next month. The city of Raleigh will demolish four buildings on the western portion of its 308-acre Dorothea ...
A Superior Court judge granted a temporary restraining order Thursday that will delay for the fifth time the closure of Dorothea Dix Hospital. About 170 adult patients were scheduled to move, ...
Dorothea Dix Hospital will not close until 2007, but some employees have already found new jobs. Hospital leaders are worried their trained staff will leave before the doors even close. Josie Douglas ...
Nurses atDorothea Dixsay the Raleigh mental hospital is in trouble. Hospital administrators disagree. Nurses held a rally Monday outside the hospital. They say staffing shortages and too many patients ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press: Opinion: Transformation of Raleigh’s Dorothea Dix Mental Hospital sets benchmark for Chattanooga’s Moccasin Bend
Opinion: Transformation of Raleigh’s Dorothea Dix Mental Hospital sets benchmark for Chattanooga’s Moccasin Bend
Did you know that Dorothea Dix Park used to be the site of an old psychiatric hospital? or that it was almost turned into a shopping center? These are just a few facts we learned on our free walking ...
RALEIGH (WTVD) -- Raleigh City Council approved a mega-land deal Friday. They agreed to pay $52 million for the 308-acre Dorothea Dix property. The ultimate plan is to turn the prime piece of Raleigh ...