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The building facilities of the newly designed were considered state-of-the-art and sought to balance recreation and rehabilitation.  Overbrook also aimed to move away from the earlier asylum model to a more theraputic and clinical approach championed by hospitals at the time.  The architecture of this facility was designed with these goals in mind. 

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Hospital world; an international journal published in the interests of hospitals, sanatoria, asylums and public charitable institutions throughout America, Great Britain and her colonies. vol.2, no.4, 1912

 

Hospital world; an international journal published in the interests of hospitals, sanatoria, asylums and public charitable institutions throughout America, Great Britain and her colonies. vol.2, no.4, 1912

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