The Nova Scotia Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. It is the province's largest mental health facility.Co-founded by the Hon. Hugh Bell and Dorothea Dix, it opened its doors in 1858 as the Mount Hope Asylum for the Insane and today it is a fully accredited teaching facility affiliated with Dalhousie University.It is operated by the Nova Scotia Health Authority.The former Nova Scotia Hospital Foundation is now the Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia.
