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Many have remained state-operated facilities, such as office building repurposed as correctional centers. A few former state hospitals have been demolished. Western Center was also a state facility for the mentally disabled and was located in Canonsburg, Washington County, Pennsylvania. It consisted of multiple buildings.
The Malvern Institute was founded in 1948. [1] However, its roots date back to the early 1940s and the founding of the first Alcoholics Anonymous chapter in Philadelphia.. Dr. C. Dudley Saul and Dr. C. Nelson Davis were both early supporters of AA and traveled together to lecture on behalf of AA [2] after becoming convinced of how a 12-step program could benefit recovering alcoholics.
- Provide funding for the PA Get Help Now Hotline 1-800-662-HELP to provide individuals with substance use disorder and their families with treatment information and services in their area. DDAP also contracts with the Council on Compulsive Gambling of Pennsylvania, Inc. to manage its toll-free Pennsylvania Gambling Helpline 1-800-GAMBLER
Diagnostic and classification center, riots occurred here in 1989 State Correctional Institution – Huntingdon: Smithfield Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania: Opened 1889 first for young offenders and then "defective delinquents" modeled after the Elmira Correctional Facility: State Correctional Institution – Smithfield
Its treatment centers are modeled after the Healing Place, also part of the network, in Louisville. “Clients work with peers in similar circumstances to motivate one another to adopt social skills and to learn core principles central to Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous programs,” according to the facility’s promotional materials.
UPMC Presbyterian in Pittsburgh, the largest hospital in Pennsylvania with 1,577 beds and 77 operating rooms, October 2015 Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest in Allentown, the third-largest hospital in Pennsylvania and largest hospital in the Lehigh Valley, with 877 beds and 46 operating rooms, July 2008
PHOTO: Police are on the scene of an incident at UPMC Memorial Hospital, Feb. 22, 2025, in York, Pa. (Harrison Jones/York Daily Record via USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
It is one of the nation's largest private non-profit residential treatment facilities. [1] George Junior Republic houses, schools, and disciplines 500 high school-aged boys from troubled backgrounds. George Junior Republic uses a behavior/education treatment model and provides psychological testing, psychiatric evaluation, education, vocational ...