The Regional Psychiatric Centre is classified as a custodial forensic psychiatry facility (Federal Forensic Hospital) with multiple security levels with a staff of 345, it is located on a 55-acre (22 ha) parcel of land owned by the University of Saskatchewan and opened in 1978.

[1] It is the only psychiatric hospital in the country with a therapeutic healing program designed for women offenders.

[2] The centre is the only of its kind affiliated with a university medical school and accredited as a hospital; patients are admitted and discharged by medical staff with senior medical staff and faculty jointly appointed with the university providing for the development of treatment and research programs.

[3] The centre is one of the residency training locations used by the Psychiatry Program at the University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine.

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