Located on a beautiful 100-acre campus, Friends Hospital, the nation’s oldest private psychiatric hospital, continues to offer a quiet refuge [...]

Friends Hospital founded by the Quakers and originally called “The Asylum for Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason.

As a forerunner to pet therapy, small animals such as rabbits and lambs are introduced into patients’ exercise areas as [...]

Friends Hospital builds its first greenhouse to enhance its commitment to the art and science of horticulture.

Anna Broomall, M.D., joins the staff as a consulting doctor, making Friends Hospital among the first to accept women psychiatric [...]

Friends Hospital opens the nation’s first institutional gymnasium.

One of the first two-year training schools for nurses who wished to specialize in mental health opened on the Friends [...]

The Hygeia Building (named for the Greek goddess of health) is built specifically to offer hydrotherapy as a treatment alternative. [...]

Bonsall and Tuke Buildings are completed, allowing the hospital to provide care for 192 individuals.

Friends Hospital becomes accredited as a training site by the American Psychological Association.