New Jersey's Hagedorn Psychiatric Hospital is a recently abandoned hospital, since the state of New Jersey shut it down in 2011. The hospital has a history dating back to 1907 when the state opened its first sanatorium near Glen Gardner, in rural New Jersey.
Back then, it was a modern facility able to treat 500 tuberculosis patients annually. Between 1907 and 1929 more than 10,000 people were treated in the sanatorium. Although at first the hospital would accept only "curable" patients, by the 1920's it accepted all cases, regardless of severity. In 1950, after new TB treatments had emerged, the sanatorium broaden its scope of treatments to include all chest diseases. The hospital finally shut down in the 1970's and was left to fall apart.
In 1977, a new gero-psychiatric hospital, named after Senator Garrett W. Hagedorn in 1986, was built next to the old abandoned sanatorium. The new hospital was a a state nursing home and a 288-bed psychiatric hospital. In 2011, New Jersey governor Chis Christie announced that the hospital would shut down as part of an effort to save $9 million a year in expenses.
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