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β | In November of 1885, the Board of Managers of [[Pennsylvania Hospital]] | + | In November of 1885, the Board of Managers of [[Pennsylvania Hospital]] voted to extend their operations to an outpatient care department for the treatment of "persons suffering from mental diseases". The physicians who would be attending in this clinics were psychiatrists who were on rotation from the hospital's primary psychiatric department at the [[Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital]]. This service was considered at the time, highly experimental, and had no parallel in the 19th. However, it would stand as the model of outpatient service providers for the next century. |
β | This outpatient clinic was renamed and expanded in 1965 | + | This outpatient clinic was renamed and expanded in 1965 to its current status. It serves as one of the Base Service Units (BSU) for the County of Philadelphia. |