Nearest city Hopkinsville, Kentucky MPS Christian County MRA Opened 1854 Added to NRHP 30 April 1979 | Built 1854 NRHP Reference # 79003612 Phone +1 270-889-6025 | |
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Address 2400 Russellville Rd, Hopkinsville, KY 42240, USA Similar Central State Hospital, Owensboro Medical Health Sy, Ireland Army Communi, Bryce Hospital, Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital | ||
The Western State Hospital, in Hopkinsville, Kentucky which was established in 1854 as the Western Kentucky Lunatic Asylum, is an inpatient center for the treatment of mental illness. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. It had a patient population as high as 2,200 by 1950. Improved medications for treatment of mental disorders allowed de-institutionalization and a decrease in inpatient numbers. The inpatient population as of 2004 was 220, from 34 counties in Western Kentucky. Its three facilities employed 650 workers in 2004.
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