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The Topeka State Hospital (formerly the Topeka Insane Asylum) was a publicly funded institution for the care and treatment of the mentally ill in Topeka, Kansas, US , It was in operation from 1872 to 1997.
Kansas Hospital for the Insane, which was also known as the State Insane Asylum or the State Lunatic Asylum, officially opened on November 1, 1866 and admitted it first patient on November 5 of that year. The first building was a small, two-story renovated farmhouse called "The Lodge" and housed only 10–12 patients. Dr.
Wyoming State Insane Asylum in Evanston, Wyoming. Asylum architecture in the United States, including the architecture of psychiatric hospitals, affected the changing methods of treating the mentally ill in the nineteenth century: the architecture was considered part of the cure. Doctors believed that ninety percent of insanity cases were ...
Local hospitals, jails say they are overburdened with patients
Amy Campbell, who works for the Kansas Mental Health Coalition, said Kansas had too few hospital beds for people requiring acute psychiatric care. In 2019, a report recommended Kansas add 131 to ...
Lawmakers plan to approve $50 million in federal funding for a new state hospital near Wichita.
The asylum was built in 1874 [4] and resembled a fortress. From an initial population of 25 patients it expanded until it housed nearly 3,000 patients in the 1950s. [ 2 ] In the 1990s it was re-purposed as a state prison , and a new 108-bed facility called Northwest Missouri Psychiatric Rehabilitation opened across the street from the original ...
The lunatic asylum, insane asylum or mental asylum was an institution where people with mental illness were confined. It was an early precursor of the modern psychiatric hospital . Modern psychiatric hospitals evolved from and eventually replaced the older lunatic asylum.