Broughton Hospital: Prepared For A New Era

Broughton Hospital is a product of history, and to follow its story is to discover an engaging tale about the dramatic changes in public mental health services and treatments in the United States and North Carolina. Today, Broughton is facing another chapter in its 134 year history as it prepares to move into a new facility only a few hundred yards from its original campus. Beyond this exciting event, a proposed 10-year "Broughton District Master Plan" envisions a project of 800 acres involving the City of Morganton, County of Burke, other state agencies and a western N.C. School of Science and Mathematics, a two-year residential high school to compliment the NCSSM in Durham. With all of this happening around the old Broughton Hospital and the new Broughton Hospital, one can only guess what the future holds for its continuing, outstanding service to some of the most needy people in North Carolina. "Insanity is a disease to be treated in a hospital and is in no sense a crime for which the sick man is to be sent to a prison.... Let us get rid of this idea and remember that the insane are persons with a tangible disease. -- Dr. Patrick L. Murphy, 1890

• | Author: Larry Richard Clark
• | Publisher: Independently Published
• | Publication Date: May 07, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 54 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1094657395
• | ISBN-13: 9781094657394