Mental Health Centre Penetanguishene
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Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care (formerly Mental Health Centre Penetanguishene), also known as Waypoint Centre de soins de santé mentale is a 312-bed psychiatric hospital located on Georgian Bay in the Town of Penetanguishene, approximately 150 km north of Toronto. Waypoint provides an extensive range of both acute and longer-term psychiatric inpatient and outpatient services to Simcoe County, Dufferin County and Muskoka/Parry Sound. In addition, Waypoint provides the province's only maximum secure forensic hospital for clients served by both the mental health and justice systems. The hospital is recognized for the provision of exceptional care to those most needing mental health services, research of severe behaviours associated with mental illness and for its contributions to the understanding of mental illness.