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  2. Topeka State Hospital - Wikipedia

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    By the 1990s, the mental health movement was away from the hospital model and toward community-based programs. Partly because the community-based model appeared effective but mostly because it was cheaper, [citation needed] the Kansas Legislature decided to close one of its three mental hospitals. TSH was chosen for closing and went out of ...

  3. Osawatomie State Hospital - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Lunatic asylum - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Wheatley-Provident Hospital - Wikipedia

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    Having been built in 1903 as St. Joseph's Parochial School, that building was renamed Wheatley-Provident Hospital and repurposed as Kansas City's first hospital for Black people. It was led by Dr. Perry and his wife Fredericka Douglass Sprague Perry , who was the daughter of Rosetta Douglass and granddaughter of Frederick Douglass .

  6. The history of the Outagamie County Asylum for the Chronic ...

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    Before the volunteers started the project, the cemetery has become became overgrown and was mostly forgotten, apart from a misspelled sign that read “Outagamie County Insane Asylum Cemetary 1891 ...

  7. Kirkbride Plan - Wikipedia

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    The Kirkbride Plan was a system of mental asylum design advocated by American psychiatrist Thomas Story Kirkbride (1809–1883) in the mid-19th century. The asylums built in the Kirkbride design, often referred to as Kirkbride Buildings (or simply Kirkbrides), were constructed during the mid-to-late-19th century in the United States.

  8. Kansas inmates wait months for treatment due to shortage of ...

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    Sedgwick County Sheriff Jeffrey Easter also urged lawmakers to create more mental health beds, saying that the county had 36 inmates waiting for a mental health facility, with an average wait time ...

  9. Timeline of Nottingham killer’s interactions with mental ...

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