State Psychiatric Hospitals

NASMHPD has an affiliation with the approximately 220 state psychiatric hospitals located throughout the United States. The facilities include hospitals for children, adults, older persons, and people who have entered the mental health system via the court system. NASMHPD holds a National Summit every two years to convene the superintendents of all of these hospitals.

In addition, NASMHPD has helped establish the following four regional organizations, each of which meet annually: the Southern States Psychiatric Hospital Association (SSPHA), the Midwestern Association for State Mental Health Organizations (MASMHO), the Western Psychiatric State Hospital Association (WPSHA), and the Northeast Regional State Psychiatric Hospital Association (NERSPHA).

A contact for each regional organization is listed below. To obtain contact information for each state psychiatric hospital within the four regions, click here.

We thank the following four state hospital regional chairs for compiling the information:

Southern States Psychiatric Hospital Association

Midwestern Association
for State Mental Health Organizations

William (Bill) Gibson
Chief Executive Officer
Lincoln Regional Center
PO Box 94949
Lincoln NE 68509-4949
(402) 479-5388
E-mail: Bill.gibson@nebraska.gov

Western States Psychiatric Hospital Association

Gregory Roberts, Assistant Director
Office of State Hospital Management
Division of Mental Health Services
Department of Human Services
50 E. State Street, 3rd Floor
PO Box 727
Trenton, NJ 08625
Phone: 609-777-0757
Fax: 609-777-0662
Email: gregory.roberts@dhs.state.nj.us

Member Search

To search our overall membership directory for State Psychiatric Hospital Superintendent members, click here.

New Freedom Commission and State Psychiatric Hospitals Report

At the May 1-3, 2005, Hospital Superintendants conference, the state psychiatric hospital regions related ongoing activities to the goals of the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. This report was finalized, and then presented and distributed to the attendees of the NASMHPD Summer 2005 Commissioners Meeting, which was held July 10-12 in Chicago, Illinois. The report is available in pdf format here.