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Now In South Bay

In 1993 Centracare came under the direction of the Region 2 Hospital Corporation, which eventually becameThe Atlantic Health Sciences Corporation(AHSC), and operated as one of the Corporation's 12 hospitals/active care centres stretching from Sussex to St. Stephen.

In January of 1996, there was a further change of management direction when AHSC switched from a facility-based to a program-based management structure, and Linda Nice, Administrative Director of Mental Health and Addictions, assumed charge of Centracare. She oversaw the last months of care for patients and the closure of the 150-year-old institution.
In April of 1997 tenders closed for the construction of a $4.4 million facility to replace the original Lunatic Asylum at a South Bay location.

The South Bay facility is for just 50 patients. Its focus is to provide highly specialized tertiary level psychogeriatric and psychosocial rehabilitation services as an integral part of a continuum of mental health care that also includes the active services of the Saint John Regional Hospital and Community Mental Health Clinics.

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