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Celebrating Silver Hill Hospital’s 90th Anniversary
A PUBLICATION FOR FRIENDS OF
SILVER HILL HOSPITAL
Silver Linings is a publication for Silver Hill Hospital’s supporters and friends. It will be produced periodically with important news and updates highlighting our continued efforts to expand and enhance our facilities and services.
Editor: Chris Bosak, Advancement Writer
Additional Contributors: Dana Harmon Evans Ashley Goldman Elizabeth McIntyre
Pam Rockland
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SILVER LININGS MAGAZINE | ISSUE TWO | 2021
90 years of excellence transforming
the lives of people impacted by
mental illness and addiction
COMPASSION, COLLABORATION, ACCOUNTABILITY AND INNOVATION AT THE FOREFRONT OF CARE
For 90 years, Silver Hill Hospital has been providing the best in mental health and addiction care. Dr. John A.P. Millet and Elvira Parsons, an English nurse, founded Silver Hill in 1931 on
the New Canaan property the hospital still calls home.
The property originally included
a house, stable and barn, with patients staying at the house,
then known as Silver Hill Inn. Although it has grown to include
14 buildings and an east and west campus (separated by Valley
Road), Silver Hill Hospital retains
its bucolic, country feel surrounded by woods with streams, ponds and wildflower meadows on the property. Many patients say the beauty of
the campus is an important element of the healing process.
Andrew J. Gerber, MD, PhD,
is the ninth distinguished psychiatrist to serve as President and Medical Director of the facility. Gerber points
to the storied past of Silver Hill Hospital as inspiration for its ambitious future goals.
Silver Hill’s vision is: “By 2025, we will lead the field in evidence-based, high quality, individualized care for mental health and addiction.”