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==History==
 
==History==
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Battey State Hospital was first established in 1943 as a temporary Army General Hospital to deal with the large number of wounded soldiers. It was named after Dr. Robert Battey, a physician who built a successful practice and was key in advancing medical treatment in Rome Georgia. However, in 1946, the state negotiated and took over the hospital from the federal government.  
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Construction of Battey General Hospital started in March of 1943 to serve as a hospital for sick, wounded and disabled World War II servicemen. It was fully activated on September 1, 1943 with Col. D.B.Faust as its first executive officer. The hospital was named for Dr. Robert Battey of Rome Georgia, who was a nationally famed pioneer in the surgical treatment for ovarian cancer and who built a medical complex in downtown Rome.
  
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Georgia turned the facility into a 2000 bed tuberculosis sanitorium. During this period, the state was experiencing a surge of TB cases. Locally around the hospital, there had been 2,534 newly reported cases. The site was renamed to Battey State Hospital
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*June 1946- The complex was transferred to the State of Georgia for a tuberculosis sanitorium. During it's peak when Battey General Hospital housed 2,000 tuberculosis patients.
  
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By 1967, the state looked at the site for more health services. Then in 1971 construction had been started on a mental health unit. That same year, mentally disabled residents at Gracewood State School and Hospital were transferred to Battey.  
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*January 1971- Several mentally retarded residents were transferred from Gracewood Hospital at Augusta, Georgia. In 1973 Battey General Hospital was renamed to Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital. Two years later, construction began on many of the red brick buildings now standing on the grounds to replace obsolete structures.
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In 1973 Bettey was renamed Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital at Rome. However, the state was looking to move more services onto the property. Afterward, in 1975, the first psychiatric and alcohol and drug abuse patients were admitted.
 
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As the TB crisis abated, the tuberculosis grew smaller and in the 1990s the unit closed.  Each year afterward saw less people being admitted causing the remaining patients being moved into more local and private settings. Finally in 2011 the hospital closed. <ref>[https://readv3.com/2019/10/if-halls-could-talk-the-history-of-battey-state-hospital/ If Halls Could Talk: The History of Battey State Hospital by Demarcus Daniel on Read V3]</ref>
 
  
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The mission to serve the citizens of Georgia has remained constant though the needs of those served have changed. Northwest closed its tuberculosis services in 1994. They later provided acute adult mental health, developmental disability, and adolescent mental health/ developmental disability services. Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital has been closed since the end of 2011 and the state is still weighing its options concerning the future of the 150-acre campus.
  
 
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