state hospital
Government psychiatric facility
A state hospital is a psychiatric facility operated by a state government, typically providing long-term care for patients with severe mental illness.
The term often carries institutional connotations—large, underfunded facilities that warehoused patients for years: He was committed to the state hospital after the breakdown.
State hospitals have largely been replaced by community mental health services, though some remain for forensic patients or those requiring extended care.
- psychiatricOf mental health treatment
- mental healthEmotional and cognitive well-being
- asylumShelter from persecution
- psych wardInpatient mental health facility
- institutionEstablished organization or custom
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- state buildingsstatehouse, capitol, governor's mansion, rotunda, legislative chamber
- hospitalsER, emergency room, ICU, operating room, operating rooms
- asylumsinsane asylum, lunatic asylum, madhouse, mental institution, psychiatric facility
- psychiatric facilitiesmental institution, psychiatric facility, psychiatric ward, psych ward, mental ward
- Soviet InstitutionsPolitburo, KGB, Kremlin, Central Committee, GRU
- government buildingscourthouse, legislative building, senate building, administrative building, administration building
state hospitaloutpatient clinic
Medical facility without hospitalization
doctor's office · private practice · home healthcare · walk-in clinic · mobile clinic
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