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2 Νοε 2016 · The Western Mental Health Institute is a historic insane asylum located in the small town of Bolivar, about 60 miles east of Memphis. The asylum was the last of Tennessee’s three major mental hospitals built in the Victorian era, constructed in 1886-1889, and the only one to remain in operation.
3 Αυγ 2020 · The institution was intended not only to meet the mental health needs of the Western Section of the State, but also to complete Tennessee's first efforts at implementing a social policy initiated before the Civil War.
Western Mental Health Institute (WMHI) is a psychiatric hospital that serves 24 counties in West Tennessee. The hospital’s doors opened in Bolivar, Tennessee in 1889. The hospital offers 4 sub-acute units, 2 acute units, forensic services, and therapeutic treatment units for a total of 150 beds.
8 Οκτ 2017 · Western State Mental Hospital, located near Bolivar, was the last state mental hospital to be constructed and habitually the one least funded. In December 1885 the site commissioners chose the farm of Paul T. Jones as the location for the proposed facility.
The buildings were conceived by Dr. Kirkbride and his contemporaries as active participants in treating the mentally ill. Western State Mental Hospital, located near Bolivar, was the last state...
The Western Mental Health Institute is a historic insane asylum located in the small town of Bolivar, about sixty miles east of Memphis. The institution is anchored by the main administration building, a Gothic Revival landmark designed in the mid-1880s on the Kirkbride Plan.
It has also been known as the Western State Hospital for the Insane at Bolivar, as the Western State Psychiatric Hospital, and presently operates as the Western Mental Health Institute, serving 24 counties in West Tennessee.
