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During the height of polio epidemics in the 1940's, the brace shop handled 6,000 different on site operations including brace making, shoe corrections, and corset construction. By the 1980's, the brace shop earned national recognition for the custom construction of complex braces, prosthetics, and adaptive seating producing custom seats and chair inserts improving patients’ posture. In 1991, the campus became the Training Academy for the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. The academy trains prison employees working for the state and county. Inmates from the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill provide daily maintenance and food service labor and participate in vocational training. The hospital provided comprehensive care on 265 acres with its own farm, dairy, and truck garden. Presently some of the acreage is farmed for the training academy by neighboring farmers. Known as “Academy Woods” sizeable populations of deer herd inhabit the property | During the height of polio epidemics in the 1940's, the brace shop handled 6,000 different on site operations including brace making, shoe corrections, and corset construction. By the 1980's, the brace shop earned national recognition for the custom construction of complex braces, prosthetics, and adaptive seating producing custom seats and chair inserts improving patients’ posture. In 1991, the campus became the Training Academy for the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. The academy trains prison employees working for the state and county. Inmates from the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill provide daily maintenance and food service labor and participate in vocational training. The hospital provided comprehensive care on 265 acres with its own farm, dairy, and truck garden. Presently some of the acreage is farmed for the training academy by neighboring farmers. Known as “Academy Woods” sizeable populations of deer herd inhabit the property | ||
− | In 1990, the clinical programs at the hospital were moved to new quarters on the Hershey Medical Campus and the original hospital was closed. In 1991, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections purchased the property and converted it into a training area for prison employees working for the state and employees working for the county. | + | In 1990, the clinical programs at the hospital were moved to new quarters on the Hershey Medical Campus and the original hospital was closed. In 1991, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections purchased the property and converted it into a training area for prison employees working for the state and employees working for the county. [ref]https://www.theclio.com/web/entry?id=23905[/ref] |
==Images of State Hospital for Crippled Children== | ==Images of State Hospital for Crippled Children== | ||
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== Links & Additional Information == | == Links & Additional Information == | ||
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*[http://www.elizabethtowncrippledchildrenshospital.com/ Elizabethtown Crippled Childrens Hospital] | *[http://www.elizabethtowncrippledchildrenshospital.com/ Elizabethtown Crippled Childrens Hospital] | ||
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