Talk:Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital

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[edit] Largest foundation?

After looking around on a few other pages and sources, I noticed a trend with other Kirkbride buildings. Many claim to be the (generic) "largest," "largest under one roof," etc. until the Pentagon was built. I'm not sure which one to believe, and without square foot figures on all of them (footprint/foundation and total square feet), I don't think we can keep the unverified info in there. However, another question is raised by this: If Greystone claims to have the largest continuous foundation until the Pentagon was built, is that the same thing as having the largest building under one roof? It seems like a very insignificant distinction to make, but everyone/every building wants its claim to fame, I suppose! I'll keep searching. Would be nice to see blueprints of all these places! I'm also in contact with the man running this website: http://www.gpph.net. I'll pick his brain on this issue, too. Rkitko 11:49, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 19 Feb. 2006 Revision/edits

Thanks to user:69.115.40.66 for drawing my attention to the below innacurate statement:

Patients were slowly transferred to smaller-capacity programs until, in 2005, no patients resided at Greystone.

I assume this user removed it because in 2005, there actually were patients at Greystone (not in the Kirkbride building, though). Sorry for the confusion. I modified it to the existing sentence:

Some patients were slowly transferred to smaller-capacity programs, reducing the number of residential patients to approximately 450 in 2005.

to reflect the information contained in the following pdf file on page 50:

http://www.lsnj.org//PDFs/budget/EyeonBudgetIIWeb.pdf, which contains this information in a table:

Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital

  • Actual FY02: 553
  • Actual FY03: 553
  • Revised FY04: 515
  • Estimated FY05: 451

Hope this helps explain why I reverted and revised this edit, user:69.115.40.66. No hard feelings. Thanks for contributing! Rkitko 04:34, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GPPH

I currently work in a different psychiatric hospital in NJ and I can assure that GPPH is still very much open. They currently use less than half of the buildings, but still accept patients from STCF's (short term care facilities) through out Passaic and Morris counties, (and a few other counties I believe), for long term care. GPPH also houses a large number of Krol patients, (patients not guilty of a crime by reason of insanity), ISTs (incapable of standing trial)and chronically mentally ill. The patient population has been reduced to about 450. -—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Amaugust (talk • contribs) 05:20, 2 August 2006 (UTC).

Ahh, thanks for the information. Do you happen to have any specific resources or literature (either online or print) other than what's already cited in the article that confirms those facts? I'd live to take your word for it, but Wikipedia can't consist of "original research". Thanks! (and don't forget to sign the page with "~~~~") --Rkitko 06:08, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
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