April Update

My journey does not officially start until August but I am gathering information already. I'm looking forward to visiting Carville, LA in August to have another public health hospital for comparison. I have visited AG Holley, our state TB hospital, in the past. To my knowledge, Holley is the last remaining state TB hospital in operation in the United States. We still have the WT Edwards hospital in Tampa. It was one of numerous TB hospitals around the state. It closed about 40 years ago. Interestingly, many of the Sunland Centers were housed in the former Florida TB hospitals. It will be very informative to determine why public health officials decided to re-use the TB hospitals as the Sunland Centers, and to find out how many former TB hospitals were used thusly. The Gainesville Sunland was not an adaptive re-use as it had existed since the 1920's. It was first called the Florida Farm Colony for the Epileptic and Feeble-Minded.