The Nova Scotia Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. It is the province's largest mental health facility.
Co-founded by the Hon. Hugh Bell and Dorothea Dix, it opened its doors in 1858 as the Mount Hope Asylum for the Insane and today it is a fully accredited teaching facility affiliated with Dalhousie University.
It is operated by the Capital District Health Authority.
The former Nova Scotia Hospital Foundation is now the Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia.
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