Allentown State Hospital
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Pennsylvania’s first state hospital to treat mental illness through homeopathy. Dr. Solomon C. Fuller, first African American psychiatrist, served as a consulting pathologist at ASH. In 1930 the Children’s Institute opened under the direction of Dr. Henry Klopp, one of the first of its kind. In 1999 ASH became the first state hospital to end the use of patient seclusion, gaining international importance for its Psychiatric Emergency Response Teams.
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