During the last decade in Ontario large numbers of patients with chronic psychiatric
disorders have been discharged from the mental hospitals and are now scattered …

TT is only in comparatively recent times that a concerted effort has been made to change the
age-old concept of a mental institution as a place for the confinement of persons whose …

This is an era where new organization of services brings great resources to bear upon the
prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of the mentally ill in the community. Adequate …

By C-ARD A SADOAN, MD in the delivery of mental health services. Under the banner of
community mental health, the provision of psychiatric care underwent revolutionary …

The author emphasizes the need for a wide variety of community living arrangements for
former mental patients, and describes a private residential-care program he founded in New …

R Fort Logan Mental Health Center, which opened in 1961 as a state-supported psychiatric
hospital, has always emphasized short-term hospitalization and alternatives to inpatient …

A newly organized, 550 bed hospital, rendering comprehensive, psychiatric care (day
hospital, night hospital, post-hospital, pre-hospital and consultation) to residents of Dutchess …

JULY 1962 the Eastern Shore State Hospital, Cambridge, Maryland, had to face more than
the usual lroblems in developing a comprehensive, cornmunity-oriented mental health …

• One-hundred and one residents of a board-and-care home housing psychiatric patients
were studied. Of these, 92% were diagnosed as psychotic; 42% have lived there five years …

Experience over a 3-year period demonstrates that a general hospital can admit, and
successfully treat, a wide variety of psychiatric disorders using the facilities that ordinarily …