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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is set to decide whether a law granting immunity to health care providers who treat mental illness should have been applied to a drug addiction treatment facility ...
Torrance opened its doors on November 25, 1919, with the transfer of five patients from Danville Hospital. The original patient census of five grew to a patient count of nearly 3,300 in the 1950s and 1960s, reflecting the attitudes of society toward mental illness. With the passage of legislation in 1966, [5] which established the community-based mental
November 28, 1980. Designated PHLF. 1970 [2] Dixmont State Hospital (originally the Department of the Insane in the Western Pennsylvania Hospital of Pittsburgh[3]) was a hospital located northwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Built in 1862, Dixmont was once a state-of-the-art institution known for its highly self-sufficient and park-like campus ...
XIV. Parham v. J.R., 442 U.S. 584 (1979), was a United States Supreme Court case that reviewed Georgia's procedures for the commitment of a child to a mental hospital based on the request of a parent. The Court rejected, by a vote of 6–3, a class-action lawsuit from a group of minors, who claimed that the state's procedures were insufficient ...
The Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 was an initiative aimed at enhancing and broadening community based health services across the country. Yet its influence was brief as it was only in effect for 10 months. Changes in politics during the 1980s resulted in its removal and a notable decrease in government backing for health programs.
Designated PHMC. October 7, 1987 [3] Harrisburg State Hospital, formerly known from 1851 to 1937 as Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was Pennsylvania's first public facility to house the mentally ill and disabled. Its campus is located on Cameron St. and Arsenal Blvd, and operated as a mental hospital until 2006.
Allegheny Health Network (AHN), based in Pittsburgh, is a non-profit, 14-hospital academic medical system with facilities located in Western Pennsylvania and one hospital in Western New York. AHN was formed in 2013 when Highmark Inc., a Pennsylvania-based Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance carrier, purchased the assets of the West Penn Allegheny ...
Bucks County Sheriff Warrant Officers walk Andre Gordon Jr., center, a triple murder suspect, in to be arraigned at the Bucks County 07-1-10 Magisterial District Court in Falls Township on ...