Mental Health Facility: Joseph Ferencz

Joseph Ferencz: The rebuilt Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital campus on West 5th Street is far more than a modern mental health facility. , according to Hamilton Spectator. "It was designed this way to destigmatize mental illness," said Dr. Joseph Ferencz, interim chief of psychiatry at St. Joseph's. "Bringing the community into the hospital contributes to people becoming more familiar and comfortable with a facility that treats people with mental illness. The idea is that mental illness is just an illness and does not have to be separated." Waits for diagnostic imaging are expected to get shorter after St. Joseph's Healthcare opens its $581-million hospital on the Mountain brow next week. Any patient could be sent to its clinics and the hope is the community will see it the same as the city's other hospitals. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.