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Chicago-Read Mental Health Center (CRMHC) is a state-run inpatient JCAHO accredited psychiatric facility with between 150 and 200 beds located in the neighborhood of Dunning on the northwest side of the city of Chicago close to O'Hare International Airport in the state of Illinois. It has served the adult residents of Chicago under various names since the middle of the 19th century as a repository for the mentally ill and destitute and as an alternative to incarceration for mentally ill offenders. Its former names have included the Chicago State Hospital and the Charles F. Read Zone Center; in 1885 it was called The County Insane Asylum and Infirmary. Originally it was simply known as "Dunning." though "Dunning" officially closed on June 30, 1912, and reopened the next day as Chicago State Hospital. Much later it later became the Chicago-Read Mental Health Center.

Read has faced a number of setbacks in its time. In 1901 it was found that nurses had starved to death two mental patients there; in 1992 it was under investigation for civil rights violations and in 1993 Read lost its accreditation altogether. In 1998 the director of the facility was dismissed under what were described as deplorable conditions for patients.

medicare provider code is 144010 150 beds (2011)

Formerly known as the Chicago State Hospital and Charles F. Read Zone Center

[Citation from 1992 when it was under investigation for civil rights violations: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1992-07-16/news/9203040143_1_mental-hospitals-mental-health-treatment-federal-investigators]

[a 1988 article about the dismissal of the director over deplorable conditions: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1988-03-29/news/8803040524_1_sign-language-interpreter-mental-health-department-watchdog-groups] apparently a place called "Dunning" preceded Read: http://www.alchemyofbones.com/stories/dunning.htm same article states, "Dunning officially closed on June 30, 1912, and reopened the next day as Chicago State Hospital. It later became the Chicago-Read Mental Health Center."

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Read loses accredation in 1993: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-10-15/news/9310150278_1_mental-hospital-accreditation-healthcare-organizations

Challenging Chicago: this is gold: http://books.google.com/books?id=ED2VkjX_0qkC&pg=PT326&lpg=PT326&dq=dunning+%22June+30,+1912%22&source=bl&ots=31nfXyFEzt&sig=n9Z389-1fV37Sd5xbyE3cmTC7J8&hl=en&ei=XP8VTc7fN5C4sAOI6p2xAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CC4Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=dunning%20%22June%2030%2C%201912%22&f=false

Chicago Read Mental Health Center (CR) is a JCAHO accredited psychiatric facility located in Chicago, Illinois. It was formerly known as Chicago State Hospital. Administrated by Dr. Thomas Simpatico and operated by the state, this hospital is equipped with a total of 200 beds. CR is one of the two satellite locations for mental health issues in the state serving adults with mental disabilities.