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− | |1= | + | |1=April 2, 2010 [http://www.wolo.com/article.php?id=2931&page=index Hidden Columbia: The S.C. State Hospital - Part 2] |
− | |2= | + | |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. |
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+ | |1=April 7, 2010 [http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/87666/ Brattleboro Retreat Hopes To Be Part Of State Hospital Replacement] | ||
+ | |2=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. | ||
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− | |1= | + | |1=April 6, 2010 [http://www.vpr.net/episode/48303/ What's Next For The Vermont State Hospital?] |
− | |2= | + | |2=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. |
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− | {{Main page news item | + | |1=April 2, 2010 [http://www.wolo.com/article.php?id=2844&page=index Hidden Columbia: The S.C. State Hospital - Part 1] |
− | |1= | + | |2=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... |
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− | {{Main page news item | + | |1=April 1, 2010 [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10091/1047054-57.stm State nears decision on Mayview property] |
− | |1= | + | |2=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. |
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+ | |1=March 24, 2010 [http://www.wfmz.com/news/22948552/detail.html Allentown State Hospital Public Meeting] | ||
+ | |2=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. | ||
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+ | |1=March 13, 2010 [http://www.theday.com/article/20100313/NWS01/303139921/1019&town= Preston takes over at hospital site] | ||
+ | |2=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. | ||
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+ | |1=March 10, 2012 [http://www.11alive.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=141574&catid=3 Milledgeville's [[Central State Hospital]] Changes Role, Decays from Disuse] | ||
+ | |2=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. | ||
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+ | |1=March 9, 2010 [http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=203268 Wernersville State Hospital preparing for Allentown patients] | ||
+ | |2=[[Wernersville State Hospital]] is preparing two new units to accommodate the transfer of up to 65 patients from the recently closed [[Allentown State Hospital]]. | ||
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+ | |1=March 6, 2010 [http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20100306/NEWS/3060324/1001 Demolition of former rehabilitation facility begins] | ||
+ | |2=Demolition work started Friday on a 73-year-old building on the [[Oregon State Hospital]] campus | ||
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+ | |1=March 3, 2010 [http://www.dailynewstribune.com/features/x699612162/Council-panel-backs-funding-to-demolish-Gaebler-Center Council panel backs funding to demolish Gaebler Center] | ||
+ | |2=WALTHAM — A City Council committee has OK'd spending $543,875 to demolish the old [[Gaebler Childrens Center|Gaebler Children's Center]], a building that city officials had wanted to reuse as a community center. | ||
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+ | |1=February 24, 2009 [http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=199074 Decision to shut Allentown State Hospital facility final] | ||
+ | |2=About 55 patients will be leaving [[Allentown State Hospital]] in Allentown, PA and heading to [[Wernersville State Hospital]]. | ||
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+ | |1=January 29, 2009 [http://www.kptv.com/news/22360349/detail.html Fire destroys building at Fairview Center in Salem, WA.] | ||
+ | |2=A cottage at the now closed Fairview Training Center burned to the ground Wednesday. Arson is suspected as the cause. | ||
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+ | |1= December 30, 2009 [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122017757&ft=1&f=1001 WWII Pacifists Exposed Mental Ward Horrors] | ||
+ | |2=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. | ||
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+ | |1= December 3, 2009 [http://www.qctimes.com/news/state-and-regional/iowa/article_533bcc99-c426-5275-97ad-a0b538164446.html Lawmaker: Iowa mental health center will close] | ||
+ | |2=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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