He defended the cost of the babies'care _ more than 25 times the expense of eight uneventful, single births _ contrasting it with the amount of money spent on geriatric patients near the end of their lives.
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Kew continued to operate throughout the 20th century as a " hospital for the insane ", " mental hospital ", or " psychiatric hospital ", treating acute, long-term and geriatric patients until it closed in December 1988.
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It was announced on February 15, 2012 that the Alabama Department of Mental Health would close Searcy and all but two of its other state-run mental health facilities in a move to transition all but its forensic and geriatric patients to community-based treatment.
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The modern hospital, which started life as an isolation unit in 1902, was, by 1979, a rehabilitation centre catering for the young chronic sick and geriatric patients and the terminally ill, as well as those recovering from accidents and serious operations run by Derbyshire Area Health Authority.
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Designed by state architect William E . Haugaard and funded with Works Progress Administration money, the building, often dubbed " the most famous asylum building on Long Island, " was completed in 1939 . It was used as an infirmary for the facility's geriatric patients, as well as for patients with chronic physical ailments.
