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After visiting Tennessee's first mental health facility, the Tennessee Lunatic Asylum, in November 1847, Dorothea Dix urged the state legislature to replace the unfit facility. [2] The new facility, named Central State Hospital for the Insane, opened in 1852 in southeast Nashville, Tennessee on the southwest corner of Murfreesboro Road and ...
It has also been known as the Western State Hospital for the Insane at Bolivar, as the Western State Psychiatric Hospital, and presently operates as the Western Mental Health Institute, serving 24 counties in West Tennessee. [1] [2] [3] Its 1889 building was designed by architect Harry Peake McDonald and his brothers Kenneth and Donald.
Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane may refer to: Dodge Correctional Institution, formerly Central State Hospital for the Insane, in Waupun, Wisconsin, United States; Middle Tennessee Mental Health Institute, formerly Central State Hospital for the Insane, in Nashville, Tennessee, United States
It was founded in 1961 by the Tennessee State Legislature. "Moccasin Bend Mental Health Institute is a psychiatric hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with 150 beds. Survey data for the latest year available shows that the hospital had a total of 2,340 admissions.". [1] The hospital was built into five different buildings. The first building ...
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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.
Aug. 27—AMARILLO — State officials gave updates on a land lease deal that will bring a much-needed mental health hospital to Amarillo. Rep. Four Price, R-Amarillo, announced the completion of ...
Pages in category "Hospital buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .