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The Department of Human Services announced that Norristown State Hospital's civil section is slated to close in January 2019. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] However, the fate of the remaining forensic portion of the hospital remains contested, [ 32 ] as forensic inpatient beds remain relatively rare.
The Pennsylvania State Hospital System is a network of psychiatric hospitals operated by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.At its peak in the late 1940s the system operated more than twenty hospitals and served over 43,000 patients.
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]
As of August, Bucks County had 23 defendants at Norristown State Hospital in Montgomery County and another five on a waiting list for a bed. The county has up to 25 beds reserved at the hospital.
John Kilpatrick, 34, will be sent to Norristown State Hospital near Philadelphia for mental health treatment. Pennsylvania State Police at Wilkes-Barre and ... Judge deemed Jackson Township ...
In June, Bucks County had 19 defendants at Norristown State Hospital, according to the county department of corrections, and two female inmates on the waiting list.
At the time of its closure in 1998, its superintendent was Aidan Altenor. Its closure was partly due to a lawsuit based on the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as well as the general deinstitutionalization of the state hospital system. When it closed, most of the patients were transferred to the Norristown State Hospital. The land was ...
Kilpatrick was sent to Norristown State Hospital for mental health treatment but was discharged and returned to the county correctional facility where he remains jailed without bail.