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Institutional Care: From 'Feeble-Minded' to 'Disabled'

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Sign, Pineland Hospital, New Gloucester, ca. 1957

Sign, Pineland Hospital, New Gloucester, ca. 1957

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New Gloucester Historical Society

With each new philosophical era of the institution came a new name.

In 1957, the facility became the Pineland Hospital and Training Center.

The name suggested the new focus: Bowman, like his predecessors, was a medical doctor, and believed in a medical model of treatment.

He added a dentist and psychiatric employees. The name of the facility became "Pineland Hospital and Training Center."

All reference or labels about the "condition" of the residents was gone.