in 1780 treatment of patients at the williamsburg va hospital was designed to
Eastern State Hospital (Virginia) Eastern State Hospital, built in 1773 in colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, was the first public facility in the present-day United States constructed solely for the care and treatment of the mentally ill. The hospital's patients were moved in the 20th century to a new facility outside Williamsburg. The original building had burned but was reconstructed in 1985. Today it operates as a museum about the treatment of mental illness.
Providence St. Vincent Medical Center In January 1971, the original campus in northwest Portland was closed and the current facility opened in Washington County.[4] On January 31, 1971, the hospital used in-part large military buses capable of carrying 18 stretchers at a time to transport patients to the new hospital building.[5] The facility at that time had a single, 13-story tower that consisted of seven floors of patient rooms.[5] The new building had 400 hospital beds, while the old hospital had 420 beds.[5]