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Terrell State Hospital is a public psychiatric hospital located in Terrell, Texas, United States. Opened in 1885, it was originally known as the North Texas Lunatic Asylum . [ 1 ] The original hospital building was built according to the Kirkbride Plan .
Traverse City State Hospital: Traverse City, Michigan: 1885 North Dakota State Hospital: Jamestown, North Dakota: 1885 Agnews Developmental Center: Santa Clara, California: 1885 Good Samaritan Hospital: Los Angeles, California: 1885 Terrell State Hospital: Terrell, Texas: 1885 St Joseph's Hospital: Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin
The construction begins after lawmakers have allocated $2.5 billion to modernize and increase access to inpatient psychiatric care in Texas.
Terrell is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, located in Kaufman County. As of the 2020 census , its population was 17,465. [ 4 ] Terrell is located about 32 miles (51 km) east of Dallas .
Sweet began working at Atascadero State Hospital as a psych tech in 2008, with a yearlong gap in 2010, the Department of State Hospitals said. His last day employed was Dec. 3.
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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.
The Kirkbride Plan refers to a system of mental asylum design advocated by Philadelphia psychiatrist Thomas Story Kirkbride (1809–1883) in the mid-19th century. Hospitals built in the Kirkbride design were mostly constructed from the mid-19th century to the turn of the 20th century in the United States.