The North Texas State Hospital (NTSH) is an in-patient mental health facility owned by the State of Texas and under the Texas Department of State Health Services.
Its two campuses in Wichita Falls, Texas and Vernon, Texas (55 miles apart) comprised after concatenation of two separate facilities (Vernon State Hospital and Wichita Falls State Hospital) make it the largest state hospital in the Texas mental health system.
The Wichita Falls campus is...
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The North Texas State Hospital (NTSH) is an in-patient mental health facility owned by the State of Texas and under the Texas Department of State Health Services.
Its two campuses in Wichita Falls, Texas and Vernon, Texas (55 miles apart) comprised after concatenation of two separate facilities (Vernon State Hospital and Wichita Falls State Hospital) make it the largest state hospital in the Texas mental health system.
The Wichita Falls campus is a 330-bed facility that exists to treat people with mental illnesses and mental retardation after being screened by a local mental health facility (generally, a hospital or community mental health/mental retardation facility). It is Medicare certified. Although not a maximum security facility, the campus is guarded, and buildings (which are not guarded) are constantly locked with very limited access.The facility used to be open until a few years ago before the merge with formally Vernon State Hospital. Wichita Falls State Hospital was the...
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