Traverse City State Hospital

The Father Fred Foundation food pantry in Grand Traverse County served 47,000 people last year. That's in a county of just over 90,000 people.

Barn 206, once part of the Traverse City State Hospital, has been reborn as an event space — with a message from a former hospital worker preserved on a wooden beam in the old hayloft.

Each Monday on Morning Edition, an IPR journalist brings you up to speed on what’s going on in northern Michigan, and what IPR is working on this week.

Author Stephanie Carpenter grew up in Traverse City and knows the former Traverse City State Hospital well.

The Northern Michigan Regional Psychiatric Hospital opened November 30th, 1885. It closed 1989, and went on to be redeveloped in the early 2000s.Today, it…

This week on Points North, we dive into how the state is trying to help underpaid and overworked court-appointed attorneys. Plus a former employee of the…

http://ipraudio.interlochen.org/State_Hospital_0.mp3Twenty years ago this month, the State of Michigan locked the doors of the Traverse City Regional…