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Osawatomie State Hospital is a public psychiatric hospital in the U.S. state of Kansas, located in the city of Osawatomie, Kansas.Established by the Kansas legislature in 1863 and opened in 1866, it is the oldest operating psychiatric hospital in the state of Kansas.
Norton County Hospital – Norton; Osawatomie State Hospital ... Rainbow Mental Health Facility – Kansas City; Topeka State Hospital – Topeka (closed in 1997)
The state will lift a voluntary admissions ban at Osawatomie State Hospital, the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services said Thursday.
By 1857, Osawatomie had grown to a town of 800 and in 1859 hosted the first convention of the Kansas Republican Party. [10] In recognition for Osawatomie's part in ensuring Kansas remained a free state, the Kansas Legislature established the Osawatomie State Mental Hospital in 1863, the first mental hospital west of the Mississippi River.
A new state hospital in Wichita could be justified because nearly 20% of patients admitted to the state hospitals at Osawatomie and Larned come from Sedgwick County, she said.
Sedgwick County has secured $40 million in state funds to pay for the facility, which would be operated by the state like Kansas’ other two psychiatric hospitals in Osawatomie and Larned.
Located at 2700 W 6th Street, the hospital opened in 1879, after the Osawatomie State Hospital, once thought to be sufficient, became overcrowded with mentally-ill patients. The first buildings in both Topeka and Osawatomie were designed by John G. Haskell who was among the architects of the Kansas State Capitol , and the hospital was designed ...
Multiple law enforcement and Kansas state agencies were involved Monday morning in the search for a missing patient and employee from Osawatomie State Hospital. The pair was located and arrested.