Florida State Hospital

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Florida State Hospital
Amos Building, near main entrance
Geography
Location	Chattahoochee, Florida, United States
Coordinates	30°42′24″N 84°50′12″W / 30.70667°N 84.83667°W / 30.70667; -84.83667
Organization
Type	Specialist
Services
Speciality	Psychiatric hospital
History
Former name(s)	Florida State Hospital for the Insane
Opened	1876
Links
Lists	Hospitals in Florida

Florida State Hospital (FSH) is a hospital and psychiatric hospital in Chattahoochee, Florida. Established in 1876, it was Florida's only state mental institution until 1947. It currently has a capacity of 1,042 patients. The hospital's current Administration Building is on the National Register of Historic Places.^[1]

The facility's property previously served as a military arsenal during the Seminole Wars and the American Civil War, and later became the site of Florida's first state prison. It was subsequently refurbished as a mental hospital, originally known as Florida State Hospital for the Insane, which opened in 1876. It gained notoriety over the course of its long history. It was sued in O'Connor v. Donaldson, a case that went to the US Supreme Court, which ruled that the hospital had illegally confined one of its patients. The decision contributed to the deinstitutionalization movement, which resulted in changes to state laws and the closure of many public mental institutions in the country. The hospital today treats patients with severe mental disabilities who have been civilly or forensically committed to the institution.