Rutland Heights Hospital (Rutland, Mass.)

St 1895, c 503 established the Massachusetts Hospital for Consumptives and Tubercular Patients, which opened at Rutland in 1898 under the supervision of a board of trustees appointed by the governor with the same powers and duties as those of the state lunatic hospitals. St 1900, c 192 renamed the hospital as the Massachusetts State Sanatorium. St 1907, c 474 authorized the establishment of three additional sanatoriums. With their completion, St 1910, c 198 renamed the Rutland institution as the Rutland State Sanatorium and St 1910, c 491 placed all four facilities under the Trustees of Hospitals for Consumptives. St 1919, c 350, s 98 replaced the trustees with the Division of Sanatoria in the Dept. of Public Health.

St 1963, c 517 designated the Rutland facility as a hospital for chronic diseases and placed it directly under the commissioner of public health as the Rutland Hospital. St 1965, c 648 authorized the Dept. of Public Health to acquire the Rutland Heights Hospital from the federal Veterans' Administration, and to transfer to it the staff and patients of the Rutland Hospital. St 1966, c 489 directed that the latter facility be disposed of. Rutland Heights Hospital was closed in 1991.

This insitution should not be confused with the Prison Camp and Hospital opened by the state in Rutland in 1904, which accepted tubercular inmates from the Massachusetts correctional system generally from 1907 until it closed in 1934.

NAME AUTHORITY NOTE: Series relating to the agencies described above can be found by searching the following access points for the time period stated: 1895-1900--Massachusetts Hospital for Consumptives and Tubercular Patients (Rutland, Mass.); 1900-1910--Massachusetts State Sanatorium (Rutland, Mass.); 1910-1963--Rutland State Sanatorium (Mass.); 1963-1965--Rutland Hospital (Mass.); 1965-1991--Rutland Heights Hospital (Rutland, Mass.)