Dr. James MacNeill (March 24, 1873[1] – July 1, 1945) was the first superintendent of Saskatchewan Hospital, North Battleford for mentally ill patients in the province of Saskatchewan.
At Saskatchewan Hospital, he changed the organization and program delivery from that of a prison and asylum to that of a modern (for the time) mental health hospital.
During his tenure, a farm project and golf course were built on the hospital grounds.
His other contributions were reform of housing for the mentally handicapped in Saskatchewan and building of the Moose Jaw Training School.
[2] The child and youth mental health clinic in Saskatoon was named MacNeill Clinic from the 1950s to 1994, when the Saskatoon Health Region absorbed all community mental health services into Saskatoon City Hospital and Royal University Hospital.