They were transported in buses and ambulances, according to a contemporary Newark Evening News article.

Patients were not limited to the mentally ill. Justification ranged from schizophrenia to syphilis.

Many people were admitted to the hospital "who had no reason to be there: healthy residents who had been determined by their relatives to be a burden."

[3][4] Meadowview Hospital was the victim of serious neglect, losing state funding and license in the 1990s and in 1995 services were contracted out.

[5] The hospital began a slow road to recovery and in 2011 became an accredited mental health facility.