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The Pennsylvania State Hospital System is a network of psychiatric hospitals operated by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.At its peak in the late 1940s the system operated more than twenty hospitals and served over 43,000 patients.
As of July 2018, there were 249 state licensed hospitals and VA hospital facilities in Pennsylvania. 148 of these facilities were non-profit, 86 were for-profit or "investor-owned", and 15 were public hospitals owned by the Federal government, state government, or in one case, the city of Philadelphia. [1]
Elk Regional Health Center was formed in 1999 with the joining of Andrew Kaul Memorial Hospital and Elk County General Hospital which were established in 1922 and 1902 respectively. Penn Highlands acquired the hospital in 2013 and changed the name to Penn Highlands Elk in 2014. [2] It is located in St. Marys, Pennsylvania.
Map of the United States with Pennsylvania highlighted. There are 56 municipalities classified as cities in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. [1] Each city is further classified based on population, with Philadelphia being of the first class, Pittsburgh of the second class, Scranton of the second class A, and the remaining 53 cities being of the third class.
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Map of the United States with Pennsylvania highlighted in red. Pennsylvania is a state located in the Northeastern United States.As of the 2020 U.S. census, Pennsylvania is the fifth-most populous state with 13,002,700 inhabitants [1] and the 32nd-largest by land area spanning 44,742.70 square miles (115,883.1 km 2) of land. [2]
The Pennsylvania Legislature passed a law in 1876 calling for a state mental hospital to be established in the southeastern part of the state. [7] Previously, psychiatric patients had to be sent at a distant to Harrisburg State Hospital , which could accommodate their various needs.
Harrisburg State Hospital, formerly known from 1851 to 1937 as Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was Pennsylvania's first public facility to house the mentally ill and disabled. Its campus is located on Cameron St. and Arsenal Blvd, and operated as a mental hospital until 2006.