{"id":22,"date":"2008-01-14T10:55:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T15:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/warren-state-hospital-information"},"modified":"2008-01-16T11:43:09","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T16:43:09","slug":"warren-state-hospital-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/warren-state-hospital-information","title":{"rendered":"Warren State Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"484\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/images\/2008\/01\/14\/1.jpg\" alt=\"Warren State Hospital\" height=\"363\" \/><br \/>\nPennsylvania state representative Kathy Rapp is working to &#8220;protect the patients, jobs and community services at Warren State Hospital.&#8221; Evidently there&#8217;s an effort in the state government to privatize elements of the institution. This effort is\u00a0part of a larger &#8220;deinstitutionalization scheme&#8221;, which could possibly lead to further closings of state psychiatric centers such as Warren State Hospital. I found out about this at <a href=\"http:\/\/pamhi.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/12\/rapp-takes-state-hospital-closing-moratorium-mission-to-speaker%E2%80%99s-symposium-on-crime-and-violence\/\" title=\"Pennsylvania Mental Health Issues\">Pennsylvania Mental Health Issues<\/a>\u00a0which has a few posts about\u00a0Warren State Hospital <a href=\"http:\/\/pamhi.wordpress.com\/category\/warren-state-hospital\/\" title=\"Warren State Hospital\">listed here<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania has two Kirkbride buildings that are still part of the state mental health system: the one in Warren, and one in Danville. There were at least three others: two of which have been demolished, and one\u00a0that is now mostly used\u00a0by private companies for non-psychiatric purposes. There may have been another Kirkbride in Pennsylvania that was demolished (raising the total count to six), but I haven&#8217;t confirmed that yet. I&#8217;ll post about it when I have more information.<\/p>\n<p>While Warren State Hospital doesn&#8217;t\u00a0appear to be in any immediate danger of being shut down, nor for that matter does Danville State Hospital, it appears the movement toward deinstitutionalization could make such closures inevitable. I don&#8217;t have anything against deinstitutionalization if it does in fact make the lives of the mentally ill better, but\u00a0I do worry about these buildings being abandoned and possibly lost to demolition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania state representative Kathy Rapp is working to &#8220;protect the patients, jobs and community services at Warren State Hospital.&#8221; Evidently there&#8217;s an effort in the state government to privatize elements of the institution. This effort is\u00a0part of a larger &#8220;deinstitutionalization scheme&#8221;, which could possibly lead to further closings of state psychiatric centers such as Warren [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[68,69,70,67,65,66],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-news","tag-danville","tag-danville-state-hospital","tag-deinstitutionalization","tag-pennsylvania","tag-warren","tag-warren-state-hospital"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}