Anna State Hospital

Hospital in Illinois, United States

37°28′38″N 89°14′31″W / 37.47722°N 89.24194°W / 37.47722; -89.24194OrganizationCare systemPublicServicesBeds270^[1]^[2]HistoryOpened1869LinksWebsitedhs.state.il.usListsHospitals 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.^[3]^[1] The original hospital was constructed under the Kirkbride Plan.^[4]

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

^ ^a ^b "Choate Developmental Center Profile". Illinois Department of Human Services. Archived from the original on 2022-10-10. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
^ ^a ^b 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.

Physicians	Thomas Story Kirkbride
Advocates	Dorothea Dix
Architects	Samuel Sloan Elbridge Boyden Nathaniel Bradlee John G. Haskell Levi Scofield Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge Richard Snowden Andrews

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