From Wikipedia It opened in 1910 as a two-story hospital to accommodate 40 to 50 tuberculosis patients. Dur to the need for more beds so that people would not be turned away due to lack of space construction of a five-story building that could hold more than 400 patients began in March 1924. The new building opened on October 17, 1926. After the introduction of streptomycin in 1943, the number of tuberculosis cases gradually lowered, until there was no longer need for such a large hospital. The remaining patients were sent to Hazelwood Sanatorium in Louisville. Waverly Hills closed in June 1961. The building was reopened in 1962 as Woodhaven Geriatric Center, a nursing home primarily treating aging patients with various stages of dementia and mobility limits, as well as the severely mentally handicapped. Woodhaven was closed by the state in 1982 allegedly due to patient neglect.
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