Georgia's state mental asylum located in Milledgeville, Georgia , now known as the Central State Hospital (CSH), has been the state's largest facility for treatment of mental illness and developmental disabilities . In continuous operation since accepting its first patient in December 1842, the hospital was founded as the Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum , and was also known as the Georgia State Sanitarium and Milledgeville State Hospital during its long history. By the 1960s the facility had grown into the largest mental hospital in the world (contending with Pilgrim Psychiatric Center in New York). Its landmark Powell Building and the vast, abandoned 1929 Jones Building stand among some 200 buildings on two thousand acres that once housed nearly 12,000 patients.
6-694: Central State Hospital may refer to: Central State Hospital (Georgia) , in Milledgeville, Georgia, United States Central State Hospital (Indiana) , in Indiana, United States Central State Hospital (Kentucky) , in Louisville-Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States Central State Hospital (Virginia) , in Petersburg, Virginia, United States See also [ edit ] Central State Hospital for
12-500: A call from Governor Wilson Lumpkin , by passing a bill calling for the creation of a "State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum." Located in Milledgeville, then the state capital, the facility opened in 1842. Under Dr. Thomas A. Green (1845–1879), care of patients was based on the "institution as family". This modeled hospitals to resemble an extended family. Green ate with staff and patients daily and abolished chain and rope restraints. The hospital population grew to nearly 12,000 in
18-473: A longer stay, and specialized skilled and ICF nursing centers. Some programs serve primarily the central-Georgia region while other programs serve counties throughout the state. In the first decades of the 1800s there was a movement in several states to reform prisons, create public schools, and establish state-run hospitals for the mentally ill. In 1837, the Georgia State Legislature responded to
24-507: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Central State Hospital (Georgia) The CSH complex currently encompasses about 1,750 acres (710 ha), a pecan grove and historic cemeteries, and serves about 200 mental health patients. As of 2016 the facility offers short-stay acute treatment for people with mental illness, residential units and habilitation programs for people with developmental disabilities, recovery programs that require
30-497: The 1960s. During the following decade, the population began to decrease due to the emphasis on de-institutionalization, the addition of other public psychiatric (regional) hospitals throughout the state, the availability of psychotropic medications, an increase in community mental health programs, and many individuals moving to community living arrangements. During FY2004-FY2005, the hospital served more than 9,000 consumers (duplicates counted) - from nearly every Georgia county. In 2010,
36-612: The Criminally Insane (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about hospitals or medical centers which are associated with the same title. If an internal link referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Central_State_Hospital&oldid=577807072 " Category : Hospital disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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