| Anna State Hospital | |
|---|---|
| Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Anna, Illinois, United States |
| Coordinates | 37°28′38″N 89°14′31″W / 37.47722°N 89.24194°W / 37.47722; -89.24194 |
| Organization | |
| Care system | Public |
| Services | |
| Beds | 270 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1869 |
| Links | |
| Website | dhs.state.il.us |
| Lists | Hospitals in Illinois |
Anna State Hospital, contemporarily known as Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center, is a public psychiatric hospital in Anna, Illinois, established in 1869. The original hospital was constructed under the Kirkbride Plan.
Choate has been accused of patient abuse and neglect since the late 1990s, 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.
References
- ^ "Choate Developmental Center Profile". Illinois Department of Human Services. Archived from the original on 2022-10-10. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
- ^ 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.
- "Anna State Hospital". Kirkbride Buildings. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
- Yanni 2007, p. 165.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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