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Friends Hospital
Address: 4641 E Roosevelt Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19124
Neighborhood: Northwood
Website: friendshospital.com
Contact: Toll-Free Phone: 800-889-0548
Local Phone: 215-831-4600
Description: Friends Hospital opened in 1817 as the first private, nonprofit hospital in the United States devoted exclusively to treating mentally ill patients. The social and medical concerns of Quakers regarding psychiatric problems influenced the physical site plan and the methodology of treatment for “such of our members who may be deprived of the use of their reason.” These approaches became the model for similar facilities in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The hospital’s design, based on William Tuke’s York Retreat in England, but with better ventilation and light as suggested by Philadelphia Friend Thomas Scattergood, also became a model for other American mental facilities.
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