and used to be assigned cases in the psychiatric facilities here. She would sometimes tell us heartbreaking stories about what she saw. The one we had here was called "Byberry" (Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry).
https://hsp.org/philadelphia-state-hospital-byberry
It was brutal - not just the care but the environmental conditions (asbestos, etc) of the old buildings themselves (and of course the care methods were shifting), and it was finally announced that it would be closed in the late '80s. But due to the leftover population in there, it took several years to transfer them to other facilities (a bunch went to the closest facility at the time which was "Norristown State Hospital" ).
I remember driving by it before it closed when I was substitute teaching or traveling up to "the Far Northeast" (as that part of Philly was dubbed). They finally tore down the buildings by the mid-2000s and a developer came in to build an "active retirement" community on the large property.
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