New York State Office of Mental Health
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New York State Office of Mental Health
Office of Mental Health New York, State
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Office of Mental Health New York, State
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New York (State) Mental Health, Office of
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Previously known as the Buffalo State Hospital, the facility became Buffalo Psychiatric Center according to Chapter 558 of the Laws of 1974.
The original cemetery was started at Willard Asylum for the Insane (as the facility was then called) in 1870. Included in the original cemetery grounds was a Civil War cemetery for patients who were veterans. Patients were accorded burial according to religious denomination. A Jewish cemetery was started on January 15, 1932 and a separated Catholic cemetery was started on February 3, 1959. Approximately 5757 patients are buried in the cemetery. The registers usually indicate graves where disinterment occurred when a family member requested that a body be moved to another cemetery of their choosing. During 1989 staff at the Willard Psychiatric Center initiated a project where graves were remarked and the entire cemetery remapped.
After the Willard Psychiatric Center closed in 1995 the cemetery was still used and maintained on the grounds of the facility. Some patients who were at Willard at the time of the closure requested that they be buried in the hospital cemetery. The cemetery is administered with respect to these patients' wishes; as these patients die they are interred in the Cemetery.
Prior to 1978, the Department of Mental Hygiene was responsible for various services to both the mentally disabled and the mentally ill, and for treatment oversight. In the furtherance of its mandated responsibilities, it received patient admission lists from public and private treatment facilities throughout New York State.
When the department split into the Office of Mental Health (OMH) and the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (OMRDD), staff separated the admission lists into two groups: those from facilities under OMRDD jurisdiction (including facilities that were of a type that would have come under OMRDD jurisdiction had it existed prior to 1978); and those that were, or would have been, under the jurisdiction of OMH.
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