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April 9, 2010 Bryce Hospital Cemetery Memorial

A memorial ceremony is to be held on Sunday April 18th in honor of patients buried in the cemeteries at Bryce Hospital. The ceremony will take place in the hospital’s chapel at 2PM.

April 9, 2010 Fulton state hospital workers fight for jobs

Union workers from the Fulton State Hospital delivered hundreds of petition cards to the governor's office on Thursday to fight to save their jobs and their services. The workers face desperate times. They've been told that, beginning fairly soon and continuing through the end of next year, as many as 200 of their colleagues could lose their jobs at the hospital.

April 8, 2010 Giving new life to old hospitals

Built strong and with a purpose, health facilities can be difficult to transform to new uses after they are abandoned. They have sturdy floors, engineered to support heavy equipment but difficult to drill through for new wiring and plumbing. To reduce the risk of fire -- always a greater danger anywhere oxygen is being used -- many older buildings were fireproofed with asbestos.

April 8, 2010 Hidden Columbia: The S.C. State Hospital - Part 2

In an age of prosperity and wealth for the Palmetto State, visionary's opened one of the first mental asylums in the nation in 1828. Anderson continues his story of the State Mental Hospital in Part 2.

April 7, 2010 Brattleboro Retreat Hopes To Be Part Of State Hospital Replacement

Mental health policy makers hope to replace the Vermont State Hospital with new facilities linked to hospitals in Rutland and the Upper Valley. Vermont's oldest psychiatric facility, the Brattleboro Retreat, says it should be part of the solution for the state hospital.

April 6, 2010 What's Next For The Vermont State Hospital?

Federal regulators have again denied certification to the Vermont State Hospital. They say the hospital doesn't have a good system for reporting problems and the facility itself has problems like an improperly installed sink, and automatic door closer.

April 2, 2010 Hidden Columbia: The S.C. State Hospital - Part 1

For over a year, the requests have been coming in for Hidden Columbia to tell the story of the old state mental hospital. Part one of a series of Hidden Columbia's opens the door to that story. To see how and why South Carolina State Hospital was founded, click on the story in the video viewer...

April 1, 2010 State nears decision on Mayview property

The future of the Mayview State Hospital site should come into focus in a couple of weeks as the state Department of General Services is expected to choose one of two redevelopment proposals.

March 24, 2010 Allentown State Hospital Public Meeting

Wednesday night Allentown officials and residents expressed their frustration with the state's decision to close the Allentown State Hospital. The state says it's about the bottom line, but some city council members are worried the state hospital closure will affect much more.

March 13, 2010 Preston takes over at hospital site

A year ago, the town took possession of the former Norwich State Hospital property from the state for $1, with the agreement that the state would pay for security, insurance and maintenance for a full year. On Friday, the state assistance ended and the Preston Redevelopment Agency will now take charge of the 390-acre property.

March 10, 2012 Milledgeville's Central State Hospital Changes Role, Decays from Disuse

The campus is sprawling and mostly empty. Huge old hospital buildings with segregation-era labels like "white male receiving building" are rapidly decaying from disuse. The empty buildings are gothic, moldering monuments to a time when this place housed and treated the desperately ill - and filled other, less noble purposes.

March 9, 2010 Wernersville State Hospital preparing for Allentown patients

Wernersville State Hospital is preparing two new units to accommodate the transfer of up to 65 patients from the recently closed Allentown State Hospital.

March 6, 2010 Demolition of former rehabilitation facility begins

Demolition work started Friday on a 73-year-old building on the Oregon State Hospital campus

March 3, 2010 Council panel backs funding to demolish Gaebler Center

WALTHAM — A City Council committee has OK'd spending $543,875 to demolish the old Gaebler Children's Center, a building that city officials had wanted to reuse as a community center.

February 24, 2009 Decision to shut Allentown State Hospital facility final

About 55 patients will be leaving Allentown State Hospital in Allentown, PA and heading to Wernersville State Hospital.

January 29, 2009 Fire destroys building at Fairview Center in Salem, WA.

A cottage at the now closed Fairview Training Center burned to the ground Wednesday. Arson is suspected as the cause.

December 30, 2009 WWII Pacifists Exposed Mental Ward Horrors

In September of 1942, Warren Sawyer, a 23-year-old conscientious objector, reported for his volunteer assignment as an attendant at a state mental hospital. The young Quaker was one of thousands of pacifists who had refused to fight and instead were assigned to work in places few outsiders got to see — places like Philadelphia State Hospital, best known as Byberry.

December 3, 2009 Lawmaker: Iowa mental health center will close

The Legislature will likely move to close one of the state's four mental health institutions despite a task force recommendation to keep them open until a new system of care can be put in place, a state lawmaker said Thursday.

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