Anna_State_Hospital

Anna State Hospital

Anna State Hospital

Hospital in Illinois, United States

Anna State Hospital, contemporarily known as Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center, is a public psychiatric hospital in Anna, Illinois, established in 1869.[3][1] The original hospital was constructed under the Kirkbride Plan.[4]

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Choate has been accused of patient abuse and neglect since the late 1990s,[5] and faced scrutiny by local media and public officials in 2022 following detailed accounts of violence against patients and lying to state investigators. Though in the past 3 years out of 1,500 abuse allegations made only 3 percent of them were deemed true .[6][2][7]

References

  1. [1]
    "Choate Developmental Center Profile". Illinois Department of Human Services. Archived from the original on 2022-10-10. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  2. [2]
    Parker, Molly; Hundsdorfer, Beth (2 September 2022). "A Disabled Young Patient Was Sent to Get Treatment. He Was Abused Instead. And He Wasn't the Last". ProPublica. Archived from the original on 2022-10-10. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  3. [3]
    "Anna State Hospital". Kirkbride Buildings. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
  4. [4]
    Yanni 2007, p. 165.
  5. [5]
    Parker, Molly; Hundsdorfer, Beth (2 September 2022). "At a Remote Mental Health Facility, a Culture of Cruelty Persists Despite Decades of Warnings". ProPublica. Archived from the original on 2022-10-10. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  6. [6]
    Parker, Molly; Hundsdorfer, Beth (10 October 2022). "Chilling Audio Provides Rare Glimpse Into Abuse at Troubled Illinois Residential Facility". ProPublica. Archived from the original on 2022-10-10. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  7. [7]
    Hundsdorfer, Beth; Parker, Molly (11 November 2022). "Report Finds "Code of Silence" at Mental Health Facility Where Staff Abused and Neglected Patients". ProPublica. Archived from the original on 2022-11-11. Retrieved 2022-11-11.

Further reading

  • Yanni, Carla (2007). The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States. Minnesota University Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-4940-2.
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