Due to overcrowding at other state hospitals, such as Taunton and Worchester, town hall officials gathered in 1851 to discuss the construction of a new state hospital for the insane. State ...

On May 6, 1946, Life magazine published "Bedlam 1946," an exposé of two state hospitals: Pennsylvania's Byberry and Ohio's Cleveland State. To a country shaken by recent revelations of Nazi ...

While hospital often tout their innovations, their history can also be interesting. In New Hampshire, the state's oldest hospital was founded almost 200 years ago. Located in Concord, The New ...

The Medfield State Hospital campus has no shortage of history to justify both. Related: Forgotten Mass.: Pink House Newburyport Medfield State Hospital, formerly known as Medfield Insane Asylum, was ...

With Rhode Island Hospital, Miriam Hospital, Women & Infants Hospital and many more, Rhode Island has a number of top-notch hospitals, especially in Providence. However, the state's hospitals are ...