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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.
The Kansas State Imbecile Asylum (later the Winfield State Hospital and Training Center) was established in the community in 1888, on a hill overlooking the city. For the next 117 years, it served as a dominant local employer, housing and confining those with mental problems from throughout the state of Kansas. [13] [14]
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.
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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.