Oregon State Hospital
About Oregon State Hospital
Oregon State Hospital is a public psychiatric hospital in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the state's capital city of Salem with a smaller satellite campus in Junction City opened in 2014. Founded in 1862 and constructed in the Kirkbride Plan design in 1883, it is the oldest operating psychiatric hospital in the state of Oregon, and one of the oldest continuously operated hospitals on the West Coast.
On the show — 2 mentions total
It was originally called the Oregon State Mental Hospital, but it's since been renamed Oregon State Hospital. It had a really controversial bit, which was they found 5,000 canisters of unclaimed human remains in there — a lot of the patients who had been cremated, but no one had come to collect them.
from No Such Thing As A Rubik's Tube, 2023-03-09 at 00:51:42 · read transcript
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