Princeton House 50 years Timeline | Penn Medicine Princeton House

A half century ago, as Princeton Hospital was looking to establish a mental health center, an alcohol treatment facility just two miles away called Princeton House—originally intended as a Broadway actors’ retreat center and later recycled into a rehab facility—was for sale.

Princeton Hospital’s Board of Trustees had the foresight to look beyond Princeton House’s present and appreciate the possibilities for its future. A handshake and a $2.2 million check later, Princeton House was part of Princeton Hospital.

Today, the original building is the only leftover from those early days.

Now part of Penn Medicine Princeton Health, Princeton House Behavioral Health has diversified and expanded many times over. It operates a 116-bed inpatient facility and offers partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient services at five outpatient treatment sites in New Jersey. And with evidence-based treatment protocols and a wide spectrum of specialty programs—paired with a team that is exceptionally committed to compassionate care—Princeton House is providing hope, innovating care, and changing lives for countless people.

			2021 Princeton House celebrates 50 years and Princeton Center for Eating Disorders 25 years!
			2020 The launch of telehealth enables outpatient care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
			2018 Princeton Health becomes part of Penn Medicine.
			2015 The Adolescent Dialectical Behavior Therapy Program opens.
			2013 First Responder Treatment Services opens.
			2012 The Behavioral Health Emergency Department opens at Princeton Medical Center.
			2011 The Young Adult Program opens.
			2010 The Men’s Trauma Program opens.
			2004 A $13 million addition adds more than 50 beds to the Princeton House inpatient program.
			2002 The Outpatient Women’s Trauma and Addiction Track is developed.
			1996 The Eating Disorders Unit (now Princeton Center for Eating Disorders) opens at Princeton Hospital.
			1995 Outpatient electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is first offered.
			1991 The first stand-alone outpatient location opens in Hamilton.
			1991 Senior Link, the state’s first partial hospital program, begins.
			1980 Adjunctive Therapies, now Allied Clinical Therapies, are introduced.

			1971 Princeton House opens as an inpatient facility for those with addictions and mental illness, treating 487 patients in its first year.