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The Hudson River State Hospital is a former New York state psychiatric hospital which operated from 1873 until its closure in the early 2000s. The campus is notable for its main building, known as a "Kirkbride," which has been designated a National Historic Landmark due to its exemplary High Victorian Gothic architecture, the first use of that style for an American institutional building.
The district attorney declined to prosecute Mors, finding him to be criminally insane, and committed him to the Hudson River State Hospital, pending deportation to Austria. [7] Mors escaped from the institution in May 1916. [7]
Isaac Roosevelt (1790–1863) purchased the land for his estate, in 1832, five years after his marriage.It was near his father James's estate, Mount Hope, most of which is now the grounds of the former Hudson River State Hospital.
Harlem Valley State Hospital; Holliswood Hospital; Hudson River Psychiatric Center; Hudson River State Hospital; K. Kings Park Psychiatric Center;
He drew his final breaths on a table in the hospital infirmary. NBC News: The book notes that by the end of the 20th century, asylums faded from view, but prisons and jails increasingly became de ...
The Hudson River Psychiatric Center in Poughkeepsie, New York was a building and a psychiatric facility for adults operated by the New York State Office of Mental Health. It was closed in January 2012, and patients were moved to Rockland Psychiatric Center .
The stakes of preparing more doctors to serve New York are painfully clear, as physician shortages plague dozens of counties from the Finger Lakes to the Hudson Valley, leaving patients waiting ...
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.