The Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents, formerly known as The DeJarnette Center for Human Development, is a children's mental hospital located in the city of Staunton, Virginia, in the U
The old DeJarnette Center, seen in 2011
Western State Hospital, called Western State Lunatic Asylum in its early years, is a hospital for the mentally ill in Staunton, Virginia, which admitted its first patient on July 24, 1828.
Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents
…the state (with the exception of a few beds available at other mental health hospitals for adolescents). Founded in 1932 as a private pay unit of the Western State Hospital, the DeJarnette Center for Human Development (formally the DeJarnette State Sanitarium) was named after Dr. Joseph DeJarnette, a prominent Virginia…
Overview of original complex