Prairie View Hospital (Newton, Kansas, USA)
Prairie View Hospital, a mental hospital located near Newton, Kansas, established by Mennonite Mental Health Services, Inc., a section of the Mennonite Central Committee, and, in the late 1950s, operated by a local board representing ten Mennonite groups in the central area of the United States. The hospital is a treatment center for acute mental illnesses and longer term rehabilitation with limited service for care of the chronically ill. Originally there was room for 41 inpatients. Outpatient services reached a large number of former inpatients and others not requiring hospitalization. The hospital, a one-story brick construction on a 50-acre tract east of Newton, was opened on 15 March 1954. The cost of the plant and equipment was approximately $280,000, nearly all of which was given by the MCC constituency in the central area of the United States. At this time the total staff averaged about 40 including professional and nonprofessional personnel. The hospital, with other Mennonite mental hospitals, grew out of a concern for better treatment of the mentally ill which developed during World War II when Mennonite conscientious objectors served in state hospitals. It furnished an outlet for Christian service for young people on a voluntary service or remunerative basis. At the time this included many young men giving alternative service to military training. Plans were in progress to include a training program for graduate nurses wishing to specialize in psychiatric nursing.
Additional Information
Address: 1901 E. First Street, PO Box 467, Newton, Kansas 67114-0467; Telephone: 316-284-6400.
Website: http://www.pvi.org/
| Author(s) | Myron Ebersole |
|---|---|
| Date Published | 1959 |
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Ebersole, Myron. "Prairie View Hospital (Newton, Kansas, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 21 Nov 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Prairie_View_Hospital_(Newton,_Kansas,_USA)&oldid=84163.
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Ebersole, Myron. (1959). Prairie View Hospital (Newton, Kansas, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 21 November 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Prairie_View_Hospital_(Newton,_Kansas,_USA)&oldid=84163.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, pp. 209-210. All rights reserved.
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