Anna State Hospital

Anna State Hospital, contemporarily known as Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center, is a public psychiatric hospital in Anna, Illinois, established in 1869.^[3][1] The original hospital was constructed under the Kirkbride Plan.^[4]

Anna State Hospital
Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center
Geography
Location	Anna, Illinois, United States
Coordinates	37°28′38″N 89°14′31″W
Organization
Care system	Public
Services
Beds	270[1][2]
History
Opened	1869
Links
Website	dhs.state.il.us
Lists	Hospitals in Illinois

Choate has been accused of patient abuse and neglect since the late 1990s,^[5] and faced scrutiny by local media and public officials in 2022 following detailed accounts of violence against patients and lying to state investigators. Though in the past 3 years out of 1,500 abuse allegations made only 3 percent of them were deemed true.^[6][2][7]