History & Milestones
What is 1880?
In what city is Cherry Hospital located?
What is Goldsboro, North Carolina?
What age group is treated in the Adolescent Unit?
What is 12–17 years old?
What is the name of the old Cherry Hospital museum building?
What is the Special Services house?
What is the difference between mental health and mental illness?
Mental health is a general state of emotional well-being; mental illness refers to diagnosable mental health conditions.
What was the original name of Cherry Hospital?
What is the Asylum for Colored Insane?
What educational institution operates inside Cherry Hospital for adolescents?
What is Riverbend School?
What unit treats psychiatric patients with physical illness?
What is the Medical Psychiatric Unit/3 Oak?
What year was the cemetery memorial monument at Cherry Hospital dedicated?
What is 2004?
This month is recognized in the U.S. as Mental Health Awareness Month.
What is May?
In what year did Cherry Hospital become integrated, treating patients of all races?
1965
What is the name of the center that includes a gym, library, and barbershop?
What is the Hope and Wellness Center?
What unit helps patients return to independent functioning using work therapy and counseling?
What is the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Unit?
What caused the permanent closing of the Cherry Hospital Museum in 2017?
What is flooding from Hurricane Matthew?
Writing your thoughts in this can help manage anxiety and depression.
What is a journal?
Who was Cherry Hospital named after?
Who is Governor R. Gregg Cherry?
How many psychiatric beds did the new Cherry Hospital expand to in 2016?
What is 300?
What is the main goal of the Geriatric Admissions Unit?
What is re-motivation, reorientation, and rehabilitation?
Approximately how many patients were buried on the hospital grounds since 1913?
What is over 3,800?
These mental health strategies help identify and change negative thought patterns.
What are cognitive behavioral techniques?
What therapy tool was introduced in 1884 for early treatment?
What is a battery (electricity as treatment)?
What is the total square footage of the new Cherry Hospital facility?
What is approximately 410,000 square feet?
What is the Adult and Acute Admissions Unit designed for?
What is short-term crisis care for ages 18–60?
What 19th-century reformer advocated for state mental hospitals in NC and influenced Cherry’s development?
Who is Dorothea Dix?
This term refers to the negative attitudes and discrimination against people with mental illness.
What is stigma?