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	Podcast:		Up First
	Episode:		The Sunday Story: Lost Mental Hospitals, Lost Patients
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:34:11
	Publish Date:		2024-06-23 07:00:59
	Description:		A few hours north of Seattle, Washington, there's a kind of ghost town dotted with decaying barns and milking sheds, an old cemetery, and once-stately buildings that housed thousands. It was never an actual town, it was a psychiatric facility, Northern State Hospital—a place that contained deep contradictions. The gardens and farm fields were designed to provide residents work and fulfillment in a bucolic setting. But the medical treatments were often harsh. Northern State closed in 1973. It was a time when states across the nation were shutting down their own mental institutions in favor of a new model of community care. Today on The Sunday Story, a look at the move towards deinstitutionalization—what it's meant for people with mental illness and for the entire society. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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