title: Rye Psychiatric Hospital Center
text: # Rye Psychiatric Hospital Center
  
  Rye Psychiatric Hospital Center was a 34-bed investor-owned mental health facility located in Rye, New York.
  
  ## History
  
  The name Rye Psychiatric Hospital Center was incorporated in 1973. By 2014 they had closed.
  
  Rye had provided "services for the mentally ill." Patients included those with addictions, and whose "behavior represents a danger to himself and others."
  
  A famous patient 'vanished' from their facility, a lunatic asylum which The New York Times' described as a Sanitarium. The hospital is sometimes referred to as "Rye Hospital Center".
  
  ## Controversy
  
  In 1984 the State of New York claimed that their facility was underutilized (and cut funding); their challenge was rejected.
  
  