Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dallas Earnshaw, superintendent of the Utah State Hospital, gives background information on the hospital in the cafeteria during a ...

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox called for greater support for the Utah State Hospital during the mental illness treatment facility’s 140th birthday celebration Wednesday. “I think we need to continue to invest ...

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The rise of community mental health services during the 20th century stabilized the number of patients at state mental health hospitals, contributing to the deinstitutionalization of these facilities ...

Back then, the Utah Territorial Insane Asylum, as it was known, was the only mental health provider in Utah. This month, as what is now the Utah State Hospital celebrates its 140th anniversary, the ...