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Superintendents/Hospital Administrators of Elgin Mental Health Center Name Years Edwin A. Kilbourne: 1871–1890 Henry Brooks: 1890–1893 Arthur Loewy: 1893–1897 John B. Hamilton: 1897–1898 Frank Jenks (acting) 1898–1899 Frank Witman: 1899–1906 Vaclav Podstata: 1906–1910 Sidney D. Wilgus: 1910–1911 Ralph Hinton: 1911–1914 and ...
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.
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Elgin (/ ˈ ɛ l dʒ ɪ n / EL-jin) is a city in Cook and Kane counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is located 35 mi (56 km) northwest of Chicago along the Fox River. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 114,797, making it the sixth-most populous city in the state. [4]
The Chester Mental Health Center is the only State of Illinois' maximum security forensic mental health facility for those committed via a court order or deemed an escape risk. The facility is operated by the State of Illinois in Chester, Illinois , and is a part of the Illinois Department of Human Services , formerly the Illinois Department of ...
When the Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities was abolished in 1909, the institute was reorganized and renamed Kankakee State Hospital, effective January 1, 1910. In 1917, the Department of Public Welfare assumed responsibility for the Kankakee State Hospital and retained control until the creation of the Department of Mental Health ...
The hospital, which was designed by Archibald Simpson, opened as the Elgin District Asylum in 1835. [1] [2] It was extended by A & W Reid in the 1860s and a third storey was added in the 1880s. [1] It became the Morayshire Mental Hospital in the 1920s and joined the National Health Service as Bilbohall Hospital in 1948. [3]
The first male patient was admitted in 1860. It was originally known as the 'Michigan Asylum for the Insane' and was renamed the 'Kalamazoo State Hospital' in 1911. Its name was changed to the 'Kalamazoo Regional Psychiatric Hospital' on 1 January 1978 and in July 1995 it assumed its present designation, the 'Kalamazoo Psychiatric Hospital'.