Mental Health Center
Article by Children Health
If a friend or someone in the family is to be treated in a mental facility, we try to find the best facility for them. After all, the goal is for them to get well, and we believe that our choice of hospital is vital for the person’s recovery. In Illinois, when we speak of psychiatric facilities, one hospital easily comes to mind. That is Elgin mental health center or EMHC.
As the second oldest state hospital in Illinois, this facility opened in 1872 under its former name, Northern Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the Insane. The first-ever physiological measurements of mental patients were recorded by the Elgin Papers back in the 1890s. By 1997, the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations gave EMHC its commendation for two years in a row.
How the hospital was developed can be broken down into five phases. The first phase finished in 1893. A stable leadership was responsible for the gradual growth during this period.
After this phase, the hospital immensely grew to more than twice its size. This second phase, which finished by 1920, was characterized by a lot of politicking, leadership changes and power struggles in the system.
For the third period, growth was more rapid. Hospital population, which reached its peak by the 1950s, increased for both geriatric and veterans. This is because the period was post World War I and World War II.
By the time the third phase finished, hospital population declined. During this phase, psychotropic medications were introduced. Other milestones for this period include the development of community health facilities, deinstitutionalization, until the decentralization of choice-making and authority. This fourth phase finished until the 1980s.
The last phase is what some call the “rebirth.” It started in 1983, when hospital census was at its lowest. Because of this, the hospital was on the verge of closure. But, the state chose to close
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