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Somerset State Hospital: Somerset: 1938: 463: 1947: n/a: closed: cottage: Began as county poor farm. Is now converted to a Correctional facility South Mountain Restoration Center: Mont Alto: 1907: 1100: 1970: active: cottage: also known as Samuel G. Dixon State Hospital Torrance State Hospital: Derry Township: 1919: 3300: 1950s: 229 (2008 ...
Harrisburg State Hospital, formerly known from 1851 to 1937 as Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was Pennsylvania's first public facility to house the mentally ill and disabled. Its campus is located on Cameron St. and Arsenal Blvd, and operated as a mental hospital until 2006.
The Pennsylvania Legislature passed a law in 1876 calling for a state mental hospital to be established in the southeastern part of the state. [7] Previously, psychiatric patients had to be sent at a distant to Harrisburg State Hospital, which could accommodate their various needs.
As of July 2018, there were 249 state licensed hospitals and VA hospital facilities in Pennsylvania. 148 of these facilities were non-profit, 86 were for-profit or "investor-owned", and 15 were public hospitals owned by the Federal government, state government, or in one case, the city of Philadelphia. [1]
Torrance opened its doors on November 25, 1919, with the transfer of five patients from Danville Hospital. The original patient census of five grew to a patient count of nearly 3,300 in the 1950s and 1960s, reflecting the attitudes of society toward mental illness. With the passage of legislation in 1966, [5] which established the community-based mental
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center (MSHMC) is a 619-bed [4] non-profit, tertiary, research and academic medical center headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania and serving central Pennsylvania. The hospital is owned by the Penn State Health System and is its largest hospital.
A view of The Pennsylvania Reform School at Morganza in 1897. [1] Western State School and Hospital, later known as Western Center, was a state-run mental hospital and reform school located near Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. It was best known for serving individuals with intellectual disabilities.
Mayview State Hospital was a psychiatric hospital, originally known as Marshalsea Poor Farm, located in South Fayette Township near Bridgeville, Pennsylvania.It spanned 335 acres (136 ha) and had 39 buildings, 12 of which were used for patient care and hospital administration.