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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)
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| total_mh_inpatient_pop = 1,772 (Dec 2009)
 
| year_past_peak_pop = 1947
 
| year_past_peak_pop = 1947
 
| past_mh_inpatient_pop = 43,383
 
| past_mh_inpatient_pop = 43,383
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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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* [[White Haven State School and Hospital]]
 
* [[White Haven State School and Hospital]]
  
== Institutions for the Disabled==
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== Sanitariums ==
 
 
* Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb
 
* Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind
 
* Pennsylvania State Oral School for the Deaf
 
* Pennsylvania Working Home for Blind Men
 
* Western Pennsylvania Institution of the Deaf and Dumb
 
 
 
== State Sanatoriums for Tuberculosis ==
 
  
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* [[Berks County Sanitarium]]
 
* [[Cresson Tuberculosis Sanatorium ]]
 
* [[Cresson Tuberculosis Sanatorium ]]
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* [[Eagleville Sanitarium]]
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* [[Easton Sanitarium]]
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* [[Eyrie Sanatorium]]
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* [[Fern Cliff Sanatorium]]
 
* [[Hamburg Tuberculosis Sanatorium]]
 
* [[Hamburg Tuberculosis Sanatorium]]
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* [[Markleton Sanatorium]]
 
* [[Marcy State Hospital]]
 
* [[Marcy State Hospital]]
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* [[Mercer Sanatorium]]
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* [[Overlook Sanitarium]]
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* [[Punxsutawney Sanitarium]]
 
* [[South Mountain Restoration Center]]
 
* [[South Mountain Restoration Center]]
 
* [[West Mountain Sanitarium]]
 
* [[West Mountain Sanitarium]]
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* [[Wood Lea Sanatorium]]
 
* [[White Haven Sanatorium]]
 
* [[White Haven Sanatorium]]
 
== Private Sanatoriums for Tuberculosis ==
 
 
* [[Blue Ridge Mountain Sanitarium]]
 
* [[Eagleville Sanitarium]]
 
* [[Fern Cliff Sanatorium]]
 
* [[Grand-View Sanatorium]]
 
* [[Markleton Sanatorium]]
 
* [[Mountain Park Sanatorium]]
 
* [[Overlook Sanitarium]]
 
* [[Punxsutawney Sanitarium]]
 
  
 
== State Hospitals for Miners ==
 
== State Hospitals for Miners ==
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* [[Shamokin State Hospital]]
 
* [[Shamokin State Hospital]]
  
== Federal Government Institutions ==
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== Private Hospitals ==
* [[Valley Forge General Hospital]]
 
 
 
== Private Insane Hospitals and Sanitariums ==
 
  
'''Large Psychiatric Facilities'''
 
* [[Belmont Hospital]]
 
* [[Belle Vista Sanatorium]]
 
* [[Brooke Glen Hospital]]
 
* [[Burn-Brae]]
 
* [[Devereux Foundation]]
 
* [[Episcopal Hospital]]
 
* [[Fairmount Hospital]]
 
* [[Horsham Clinic]]
 
 
* [[Friends Hospital]]
 
* [[Friends Hospital]]
 
* [[Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital]]
 
* [[Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital]]
 
* [[Pennsylvania Hospital]]
 
* [[Pennsylvania Hospital]]
* [[Saint Francis Hospital for the Insane]]
 
 
* [[U.S. Naval Asylum and Hospital]]
 
* [[U.S. Naval Asylum and Hospital]]
  
'''Small Psychiatric Facilities'''
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== County Almshouses ==
* [[Convalescents Retreat]]
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* [[Blockley Almshouse]]
* [[Crest View Hospital]]
 
* [[Easton Sanitarium]]
 
* [[Eugenia Hospital]]
 
* [[Eyrie Sanatorium]]
 
 
* [[Gladwyne Colony]]
 
* [[Gladwyne Colony]]
* [[Inwood Sanitarium]]
 
* [[Kenwood Sanitarium]]
 
* [[MCES]]
 
* [[Mercer Sanatorium]]
 
* [[St. John Vianney Center]]
 
* [[Springbank on the Wissahickon]]
 
* [[Stoneyhurst Hospital]]
 
* [[The Firs]]
 
* [[The Orchard]]
 
* [[The Tower House]]
 
* [[Wood Lea Sanitarium]]
 
* [[Dermandy Sanatorium]]
 
 
== County/City/District Almshouses==
 
 
* [[Adams County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Allegheny City Home]]
 
* [[Allegheny County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Auburn and Rush Almshouse]]
 
* [[Beaver County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Bedford County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Berks County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Blakely Poor-House]]
 
* [[Blair County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Blockley Almshouse]]
 
* [[Bloom Poor-House]]
 
* [[Bradford County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Bucks County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Cambria County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Carbondale City Poorhouse]]
 
* [[Central Poor District Almshouse]]
 
* [[Chester County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Clarion County Home]]
 
* [[Coal Township Poor-House]]
 
* [[Conyngham and Centralia Poor-House]]
 
* [[Crawford County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Cumberland County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Danville and Mahoning Poor-House]]
 
* [[Dauphin County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Delaware County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Erie County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Fayette County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Franklin County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Germantown Poorhouse]]
 
* [[Greene County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Hillside Farm and Almshouse]]
 
* [[Honesdale and Texas Poor-House]]
 
* [[Huntingdon County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Kittanning Poor-House]]
 
 
* [[Lancaster County Almshouse and Asylum]]
 
* [[Lancaster County Almshouse and Asylum]]
* [[Lebanon County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Lehigh County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Lock Haven City Poor House]]
 
* [[Madison Poor-House]]
 
* [[McKean County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Mercer County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Middle Coal Field Poor District Almshouse]]
 
* [[Mifflin County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Montgomery County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Montrose and Bridgewater Almshouse]]
 
* [[New Castle Poor-House]]
 
* [[New Milford Almshouse]]
 
* [[Northampton County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Northern Luzerne Poor-House]]
 
* [[Oxford and Lower Dublin Poor-House]]
 
 
* [[Perry County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Perry County Almshouse]]
* [[Philadelphia Almshouse]]
 
* [[Pittsburgh City Farm]]
 
* [[Ransom Poor-House]]
 
* [[Roxborough Poor-House]]
 
 
* [[Schuylkill County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Schuylkill County Almshouse]]
* [[Sesquehanna Boro and Oakland Township Almshouse]]
 
* [[Somerset County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Sunbury Poor-House]]
 
* [[The Rouse Hospital]]
 
* [[Tioga County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Valley Township Poor-House]]
 
* [[Venango County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Washington County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Westmoreland County Almshouse]]
 
* [[Williamsport City Poor-House]]
 
* [[York County Almshouse]]
 
  
== Prisons and Juvenile Centers ==
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== Other Institutions ==
 
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* [[The Firs]]
* House of Refuge for Colored Children
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* [[The Orchard]]
* Pennsylvania Reform School
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* [[The Tower House]]
* Philadelphia House of Refuge
 
* [[Sleighton Farm School]]
 
 
 
== Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation ==
 
 
 
* Malvern Institute
 
* Penn Foundation
 
* Livengrin Foundation
 
* Keystone Treatment Center
 
* Gaudenzia Treatment Center
 
* Valley Forge Medical Center
 
* White Deer Run
 
  
== Orphanages ==
 
* [[Sleighton School]]
 
  
 
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[[Category:United States of America]]

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