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]
| 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 |
| Organization | |
| Care system | Public |
| Services | |
| Beds | 270[1][2] |
| History | |
| Opened | 1869 |
| Links | |
| Website | dhs.state.il.us |
| Lists | Hospitals in Illinois |
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
Further reading
- Yanni, Carla (2007). The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States. Minnesota University Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-4940-2.