Hospitals in Kansas - Topeka State Hospital, Mt. Carmel Regional Medical Center, List of Hospitals in Kansas, Cloud County Health Center (Paperback)

Chapters: Topeka State Hospital, Mt. Carmel Regional Medical Center, List of Hospitals in Kansas, Cloud County Health Center, Oswego Community Hospital, Labette Health, Shawnee Mission Medical Center, St. Francis Health Center. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Topeka State Hospital, a publicly funded institution for the care and treatment of the mentally ill in Topeka, Kansas, was in operation from 1872 to 1997. Located at 2700 W 6th st, the hospital opened in 1879 after the Osawatomie State Hospital, once thought to be sufficient, became overcrowded with mentally ill inmates. There were horror stories from the early 1900s about patients being abused, neglected, or raped. One newspaper reporter told of seeing a patient who had been confined in leather straps so long, the skin was growing around the straps. A common sight during those times was patients sitting in rocking chairs in the hallways all day long, with no opportunity for other activity. Legal commitment papers couldn't be found for some of the patients, and some patients couldn't even be accurately identified. Many patients still were being admitted as a result of the legal process and weren't having their actual mental conditions evaluated by hospital officials. Patients were sometimes kept chained and nude for months or even years. An alarm arose in 1948 over the deplorable conditions at TSH, caused by such factors as reduced expenditures by the state and a shortage of psychiatrists, psychologists and other professional personnel. Gov. Frank Carlson appointed a five-member panel to study the situation. After the committee released its report in October 1948, the Legislature doubled the appropriations for mental hospitals, made TSH a training center for psychiatric personnel and...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2461520