His department places two or three forensic psychiatry fellows at St. Elizabeths, which also serves as a forensic training site for general psychiatry residents.

St. Elizabeths hospital, first proposed by Dorothea Dix and built before the Civil War, opened a 292-bed facility on the hospital grounds overlooking the Anacostia River in Washington, d.c..

It may easily be believed that the events of the last two days had such an effect on Elizabeths naturally happy spirits, that she found it almost impossible to appear even reasonably cheerful.