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Arkansas State Hospital, originally known as Arkansas Lunatic Asylum, [1] is the sole public psychiatric hospital in the state of Arkansas, and is located in the city of Little Rock. It was established in 1883 and as of 2024, it is still active. Its main focus is on acute care rather than chronic illness. [2]
In 1876, it was called Eastern Kentucky Lunatic Asylum. On January 2, 1912, the General Assembly, Commonwealth of Kentucky, officially renamed the facility Eastern State Hospital. During the 1960s there was a growth of the community mental health system throughout Kentucky until there was a center in most counties.
This is a list of properties and historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Anchorage, Kentucky.Latitude and longitude coordinates of the 35 sites listed on this page may be displayed in a map or exported in several formats by clicking on one of the links in the adjacent box.
The lunatic asylum, insane asylum or mental asylum was an institution where people with mental illness were confined. It was an early precursor of the modern psychiatric hospital . Modern psychiatric hospitals evolved from and eventually replaced the older lunatic asylum.
Charles Jackson Circus Museum, Hopkinsville, collections now at the Pennyroyal Area Museum [34] Alben W. Barkley Museum, Paducah; Barren River Imaginative Museum of Science, Bowling Green, closed in 2012 [35] [36] Floyd Collins Museum, Cave City, closed in 2013 [37] Morris Toy Museum, Carrsville [38]
MOBILE, Ala. – On Thursday night, the Arkansas State Red Wolves defeated the Bowling Green Falcons in the 68 Ventures Bowl 38 to 31. The Red Wolves’ victory comes after winning seven games ...
Thomas Story Kirkbride, creator of the Kirkbride Plan. The establishment of state mental hospitals in the U.S. is partly due to reformer Dorothea Dix, who testified to the New Jersey legislature in 1844, vividly describing the state's treatment of lunatics; they were being housed in county jails, private homes, and the basements of public buildings.
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