New Haven · New Haven County. Yale New Haven Hospital identifies its psychiatric hospital as the former Yale Psychiatric Institute. The current inpatient facility is at 184 Liberty Street. Yale’s department history also documents the institute’s building designed by Frank Gehry.
Evidence, credit & reuse: Classification: Specialist psychiatric teaching hospital. Earlier use: The present psychiatric hospital is the former Yale Psychiatric Institute. Earlier site uses were not established. Identity and successor relationship verified; exact original founding date unresolved. Do not apply the general hospital’s 1826 founding or its 1833 building date to the psychiatric institute. Do not apply the psychiatry department’s 1930 founding date to the hospital. Exact founding, building-opening and institutional transfer dates require further archival confirmation.
Source: Yale New Haven Hospital; History and Heritage
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Silent Grounds Collective, Historic Mental Health Institutions, SGC-MI-014, MI-006, “Yale Psychiatric Institute / Yale New Haven Psychiatric Hospital.” Source: Yale New Haven Hospital; History and Heritage. https://www.ynhh.org/about/hospital-overview/history-heritage. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-08.