On the top of each concrete marker/gravestone there is a number instead of the name. The cemetery has rows of concrete markers where the patients that passed away over the years are buried.
Woodville State Hospital CemeteryĪlthough Woodville State Hospital no longer exists, the Woodville State Hospital Cemetery does. Today, all that is left is a cemetery where some of the patients of the Woodville State Hospital that passed away are buried. When the hospital finally closed, the patients were discharged to either Mayview State Hospital in South Fayette or to community programs. Their current patients were evaluated to determine where they would be placed. In the months before the closing and during the closing, Woodville stopped accepting new patients. To the workers and the union that represented them, it meant lobbying to make sure that no one lost their job. To the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the closing meant saving five million dollars and to Allegheny County it meant a challenge to secure as much money as possible for the mental ill. Also they were worried that there would be changes in their medications. They were worried that they would not have the same doctors who knew them personally and treated them very well. The Woodville State Hospital’s patients were worried about moving. The closing of Woodville State Hospital affected various stakeholders. Governor Robert Casey was facing a projected $1 billion state budget deficit so he made the decision to close the hospital and consolidate its services with Mayview by June 30, 1992. She said that she made that suggestion because Woodville Hospital and Mayview Hospital were closest together in the state system of 14 facilities. Snider who was the deputy secretary for mental health in the state Department of Public Welfare at the time, recommended to close Woodville State Hospital. In 1984, Dixmont State Hospital was closed instead. The Welfare Department proposed closing Woodville in 1983 but many people lobbied to keep it open. Hospital ClosureĪlthough the hospital closed in 1992, the State considered closing it previously. At the time it closed, Woodville housed around 460 patients. At its peak, the Woodville State Hospital housed more than 2,300 mentally ill patients. When it was first established, it housed the poor but later on became a home for the mentally ill. The Woodville State Hospital was located in Collier Township between Hilltop Road and Thoms Run Road. The Woodville State Hospital opened in 1854 and closed in 1992 after 138 years. The information and photographs on this page were written and provided by An na Murphy.
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