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| − | |1= January 11, 2011 [http://www.wickedlocal.com/medfield/features/x1062715202/Medfield-State-Hospital-contaminant-picture-to-become-clearer-after-meeting Medfield State Hospital contaminant picture to become clearer after meeting] | + | |1=February 7, 2016 [http://www.nonpareilonline.com/news/local/clarinda-struggles-to-fill-former-hospital/article_5a2612fa-10ff-5047-9f59-080d06bf58b7.html Clarinda struggles to fill former hospital] |
| − | |2=The state will present a report on the sources, types, and extent of the contamination at site of the former Medfield State Hospital Thursday night. The town and state expects to turn the area into residential housing, but must overcome a number of environmental hurdles first.
| + | |2=The 128-year-old former mental health institute in the small southwest Iowa city of Clarinda isn’t your typical real estate opportunity, and so far no one is rushing to move in. More than seven months after the state closed the Clarinda Mental Health Institute, much of the sprawling building remains empty, including entire floors that haven’t been used in decades. |
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| − | |1= December 27, 2010 [http://washingtonexaminer.com/news/2010/12/former-va-asylum-converted-upscale-condos Former Va asylum converted into upscale condos]
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| − | |2=Standing shoulder to shoulder in Room 203, the three women from different parts of the country compared their memories. Each took a job at the old [[Western State Hospital]] in successive years: 1957, 1958 and 1959. On Sunday they returned to the building for an open house of the former asylum, now the site of some of Staunton's most lavish condominiums.
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| − | |1= December 15, 2010 [http://articles.mcall.com/2010-12-15/news/mc-allentown-state-hospital-closure-120101215_1_mental-illness-substance-abuse-services-mental-health End of an era at Allentown State Hospital]
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| − | |2=The official closure of [[Allentown State Hospital]] on Wednesday was part rally for residents asserting their independence and part farewell to a century-old relic of how society once regarded mental illness. | |
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| − | |1= December 8, 2010 [http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/closing-of-dorothea-dix-hospital-marks-failure-of-state-reforms/Content?oid=1866209 Closing of Dorothea Dix Hospital marks failure of state reforms]
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| − | |2=[[Dorothea Dix Hospital]] isn't closed yet, but it stopped admitting patients last week and is in the process of transferring all but about 30 high-risk patients, people who committed crimes and are housed in a maximum-security unit, to other state hospitals in Butner and Goldsboro. DHHS Secretary Lanier Cansler has announced that these patients, too, will be relocated within a few months.
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| − | |1= December 7, 2010 [http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/Patients_of_State_Hospital_Get_Respect_Posthumously_111495659.html Patients of State Hospital Get Respect Posthumously]
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| − | |2=For a century or more an empty weed choked lot and the city park next door in Sparks' Conductor Heights neighborhood served as the final resting place for 800 or more souls, patients of the adjacent Nevada Mental Health Institute. They lie here in unmarked, even unrecorded graves. Many of them literally abandoned in life, receiving no more respect in death.
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| − | |1= November 16, 2010 [http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/25550623-41/patients-hospital-harbors-state-building.csp State’s new mental hospital offers private bedrooms, outdoor spaces]
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| − | |2=The new [[Oregon State Hospital]] is getting ready for its first wave of patients, who will all have private bedrooms and access to “treatment malls.” Nearly 100 patients are scheduled to leave cramped and dreary wards in the existing 127-year-old hospital in Salem in January and move to the new facility, called “Harbors.”
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| − | |1= November 9, 2010 [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/10/realestate/commercial/10traverse.html From Ex-Mental Hospital to a New Mixed-Use Life]
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| − | |2=Until it closed in 1989, the [[Traverse City State Hospital]] was among the largest employers in this small city in northern Michigan. Two new commercial and residential construction projects are bringing the old asylum, renamed the Village at Grand Traverse Commons, closer to regaining that distinction.
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| − | |1= October 15, 2010 [http://www.norwichbulletin.com/news/x1943810898/Preston-may-save-millions-on-former-hospital-cleanup Preston may save millions on former hospital cleanup] | + | |1=February 1, 2016 [http://www.pjstar.com/article/20160201/NEWS/160209955 Efforts continue to preserve other parts of former Peoria State Hospital grounds] |
| − | |2=Cleanup costs at the former [[Norwich State Hospital]] property may be millions less than the town first believed, First Selectman Robert Congdon said. Preston bought the hospital property from the state for $1 in March 2009, and is trying to plan its development in a sluggish economy. The town is responsible for its cleanup if it can’t find a developer.
| + | |2=Christina Morris happily remembers Sunday morning breakfasts with her grandparents, followed by visits to the peaceful cemeteries on the grounds of the Peoria State Hospital, where some family members are buried. “My interest with the state hospital started when I was about 7 years old,” Morris said in a recent interview. “When I would come onto the grounds (my grandfather) would say that this was a place of special people. (By special) I thought he meant giants, because these buildings were so big and beautiful and immaculate to me. I just was enamored by how beautiful it was.” |
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| − | |1= October 13, 2010 [http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/10/with_syracuse_developmental_ce.html With Syracuse Developmental Center deal dead, city school superintendent unveils 'Plan B']
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| − | |2=[[Syracuse State School|Syracuse schools]] Superintendent Dan Lowengard said he will brief the school board today on an alternative plan to move children out of Dr. Weeks Elementary School early in 2011 to allow long-awaited renovations to begin.
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| − | |1= September 24, 2010 [http://www.kentucky.com/2010/09/24/1449395/eastern-state-hospital-breaks.html Eastern State Hospital breaks ground for new hospital]
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| − | |2=Ground was broken Friday for the new [[Eastern State Hospital Lexington]] facility at the University of Kentucky's Coldstream Research Campus, with construction due to begin in November. | |
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| − | |1= September 22, 2010 [http://www.hastingsstargazette.com/event/article/id/23215/group/homepage/ Last of state hospital cemetery markers will be dedicated Oct. 2]
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| − | |2= The journey to remember has almost been completed at the former [[Hastings State Hospital]] cemetery in Hastings. More than 700 graves, with markers, have been dedicated. The remaining 146 markers will be dedicated in a public ceremony at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 2 at the cemetery.
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| − | |1= September 20, 2010 [http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/sep/20/patients-who-died-in-state-hospitals-are/ Patients who died in state hospitals are remembered Observance held for first time at what is now CSUCI]
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| − | Tim Dugan was at work in Portland, Ore., Monday morning when he decided there was a memorial service he had to make. So the businessman jumped on a plane and arrived in time for a ceremony that evening on the former grounds of [[Camarillo State Hospital]].
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| − | |1= September 2, 2010 [http://ksax.com/article/stories/S1725304.shtml?cat=10230 Historic Fergus Falls Hospital Building Listed on Craigslist for $1]
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| − | |2= FERGUS FALLS, Minn. - The historic Kirkbride State Hospital of Fergus Falls is a local landmark but city officials said they fear it could soon be demolished. "(Demolishing the building) would just leave a big hole in the heart of the city," building inspector Len Taylor said.
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| − | |1= September 2, 2010 [http://www.mlive.com/living/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2010/09/kalamazoo_doctor_writes_book_o.html Kalamazoo doctor writes book on Traverse City psychiatric hospital: Decker's history of Kalamazoo hospital was named Michigan Notable Book]
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| − | |2= KALAMAZOO — The former medical superintendent of the Kalamazoo Psychiatric Hospital, who wrote a book on the history of that institution, has now written a book about another state psychiatric facility.
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| − | |1= August 24, 2010 [http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2010/aug/24/dorothea-dix-hospital-close-end-year-officials-say/news/ Dorothea Dix Hospital to close by end of year, officials say]
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| − | |2= The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services said today that it has decided to close [[Dorothea Dix Hospital]] by the end of the year and transfer its patients to two other state psychiatric hospitals.
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| − | |1= August 12, 2010 [http://www.telegram.com/article/20100813/NEWS/100819855/1116 New state hospital]
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| − | |2= A white beam with the signature of Gov. Deval L. Patrick added to those of other officials and construction workers was hoisted to the top of the 320-bed state psychiatric hospital under construction in a topping out ceremony this morning at [[Worcester State Hospital]].
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| − | |1= August 12, 2010 [http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=12972202 Central State cemetery in poor condition]
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| − | |2= There's concern the city isn't doing enough to maintain a small cemetery it owns on the west side. The cemetery, which doesn't have a name, is the final resting place for roughly 500 people, former patients of [[Central Indiana State Hospital]], an insane asylum that opened in 1848 and closed in 1994.
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| − | |1= August 2, 2010 [http://www.wdam.com/Global/story.asp?S=12913559 South Mississippi State hospital in Purvis may be forced to shut down]
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| − | |2= The Mississippi Department of Mental Health could be closing the doors to four facilities across the state. South Mississippi State Hospital in Purvis, which serves mentally ill patients from nine counties, may be one of them.
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| − | |1= August 2, 2010 [http://www.rgj.com/article/20100802/NEWS/8020321/1321/Bones-from-abandoned-Sparks-graveyard-to-get-final-rest Bones from abandoned Sparks graveyard to get final rest]
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| − | |2=Two weeks ago, workers digging on a Truckee Meadows Water Authority project discovered human remains, including a skull and other bones. They put the bones in a bag, which was found by nearby residents. The area where the remains were discovered is city property, but for many years, it was state property that housed what was then the Nevada State Hospital. From 1882 to 1949, hundreds of patients at the hospital -- now Northern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services -- were buried on the site in a potter's field, records show. Other community residents also were buried there.
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| − | |1= July 20, 2010 [http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2010/07/university_of_alabama_to_build.html University of Alabama to build new Bryce psychiatric hospital in Tuscaloosa]
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| − | |2=The University of Alabama will oversee construction of a new state mental hospital, the executive committee of the UA System Board of Trustees decided today. University officials plan to use the land abutting the UA campus for future expansion and plan to preserve at least part of the historic structure.
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| − | |1= July 14, 2010 [http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=104006&catid=158 Firefighters Respond To Two Alarm Fire At Saint Elizabeth's Hospital] | + | {{Main page news item |
| − | |2=About 100 DC Firefighters responded to a two-alarm fire Tuesday night at the [[St Elizabeths Hospital]] campus in Southeast DC. It is the oldest federally funded psychiatric hospital in the country. | + | |1=January 7, 2016 [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sterilization-united-states_568f35f2e4b0c8beacf68713?utm_hp_ref=latino-voices&ir=Latino%2BVoices§ion=latino-voices That Time The United States Sterilized 60,000 Of Its Citizens] |
| | + | |2=Not too long ago, more than 60,000 people were sterilized in the United States based on eugenic laws. Most of these operations were performed before the 1960s in institutions for the so-called “mentally ill” or “mentally deficient.” In the early 20th century across the country, medical superintendents, legislators, and social reformers affiliated with an emerging eugenics movement joined forces to put sterilization laws on the books. |
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| − | |1= July 6, 2010 [http://www.wibw.com/localnews/headlines/97900129.html Wrecking Ball Meets Topeka State Hospital] | + | {{Main page news item |
| − | |2=Say farewell to a historic part of Topeka. Workers Tuesday took the wrecking ball to the famous Center Building of the former [[Topeka State Hospital]]. | + | |1=January, 6, 2016 [http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/01/harrisburg_state_hospital_site.html Pa. hires firm to develop plan for Harrisburg State Hospital site] |
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| + | |2= Harrisburg, PA-The state has hired a Lancaster planning company to help it figure out what to do with the former [[Harrisburg State Hospital]], which closed 10 years ago. Since closing in 2006, the hospital complex has housed state workers from the state police, Department of General Services and the Department of Human Services. It is now part of the larger DGS Annex property, which encompasses 303 acres across Harrisburg and Susquehanna Township. |
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| − | |1= July 1, 2010 [http://www.theindychannel.com/news/24117107/detail.html Vacant Central State Property Eyed For Large Facility]
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| − | |2=A long-vacant old hospital grounds could become the home of a new, multimillion-dollar sports complex. [[Central Indiana State Hospital]] closed in 1994, and Indianapolis bought the property in 2004. A private company had planned to build commercial and residential space there a couple of years ago, but the plan didn't materialize.
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