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| Length_mile = 160
 
| Length_mile = 160
 
| Length_km = 255
 
| Length_km = 255
| total_state_population = 12,787,209 (2014 est)
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| total_state_population = 12,604,767 (2009 est.)
 
| total_mh_inpatient_pop = 1,400 (2012)
 
| total_mh_inpatient_pop = 1,400 (2012)
 
| year_past_peak_pop = 1947
 
| year_past_peak_pop = 1947
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* [[Scranton State Hospital]]
 
* [[Scranton State Hospital]]
 
* [[Somerset State Hospital]]
 
* [[Somerset State Hospital]]
* [[State Hospital for Crippled Children]]
 
 
* [[Torrance State Hospital]]
 
* [[Torrance State Hospital]]
 
* [[Warren State Hospital]]
 
* [[Warren State Hospital]]
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== Private Sanatoriums for Tuberculosis ==
 
== Private Sanatoriums for Tuberculosis ==
  
* [[Blue Ridge Mountain Sanitarium]]
 
 
* [[Eagleville Sanitarium]]
 
* [[Eagleville Sanitarium]]
 
* [[Fern Cliff Sanatorium]]
 
* [[Fern Cliff Sanatorium]]
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* [[Punxsutawney State Hospital]]
 
* [[Punxsutawney State Hospital]]
 
* [[Shamokin State Hospital]]
 
* [[Shamokin State Hospital]]
 
== Federal Government Institutions ==
 
* [[Valley Forge General Hospital]]
 
  
 
== Private Insane Hospitals and Sanitariums ==
 
== Private Insane Hospitals and Sanitariums ==
  
 
'''Large Psychiatric Facilities'''
 
'''Large Psychiatric Facilities'''
* [[Belmont Hospital]]
 
* [[Belle Vista Sanatorium]]
 
 
* [[Brooke Glen Hospital]]
 
* [[Brooke Glen Hospital]]
 
* [[Burn-Brae]]
 
* [[Burn-Brae]]
* [[Devereux Foundation]]
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* [[Devereaux Foundation]]
 
* [[Episcopal Hospital]]
 
* [[Episcopal Hospital]]
* [[Fairmount Hospital]]
 
 
* [[Horsham Clinic]]
 
* [[Horsham Clinic]]
 
* [[Friends Hospital]]
 
* [[Friends Hospital]]
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* [[Saint Francis Hospital for the Insane]]
 
* [[Saint Francis Hospital for the Insane]]
 
* [[U.S. Naval Asylum and Hospital]]
 
* [[U.S. Naval Asylum and Hospital]]
 
 
'''Small Psychiatric Facilities'''
 
'''Small Psychiatric Facilities'''
 
* [[Convalescents Retreat]]
 
* [[Convalescents Retreat]]
 
* [[Crest View Hospital]]
 
* [[Crest View Hospital]]
 
* [[Easton Sanitarium]]
 
* [[Easton Sanitarium]]
* [[Eugenia Hospital]]
 
 
* [[Eyrie Sanatorium]]
 
* [[Eyrie Sanatorium]]
 
* [[Gladwyne Colony]]
 
* [[Gladwyne Colony]]
 
* [[Inwood Sanitarium]]
 
* [[Inwood Sanitarium]]
 
* [[Kenwood Sanitarium]]
 
* [[Kenwood Sanitarium]]
* [[MCES]]
 
 
* [[Mercer Sanatorium]]
 
* [[Mercer Sanatorium]]
* [[St. John Vianney Center]]
 
* [[Springbank on the Wissahickon]]
 
 
* [[Stoneyhurst Hospital]]
 
* [[Stoneyhurst Hospital]]
 
* [[The Firs]]
 
* [[The Firs]]
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* [[Bucks County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Bucks County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Cambria County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Cambria County Almshouse]]
* [[Carbondale City Poorhouse]]
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* [[Carbondale City Poor-House]]
 
* [[Central Poor District Almshouse]]
 
* [[Central Poor District Almshouse]]
 
* [[Chester County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Chester County Almshouse]]
* [[Clarion County Home]]
 
 
* [[Coal Township Poor-House]]
 
* [[Coal Township Poor-House]]
 
* [[Conyngham and Centralia Poor-House]]
 
* [[Conyngham and Centralia Poor-House]]
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* [[Fayette County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Fayette County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Franklin County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Franklin County Almshouse]]
* [[Germantown Poorhouse]]
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* [[Germantown Poor-House]]
 
* [[Greene County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Greene County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Hillside Farm and Almshouse]]  
 
* [[Hillside Farm and Almshouse]]  

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