Maryland -1960

Public Mental Health Program

Maryland -1960

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE HOSPITALS OF MARYLAND UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HYGIENE

The Division of Hospital Inspection and Licensure continually checks medical care, living conditions of patients, sanitation, public safety standards, commitment procedures and conducts frequent inspections of public and private mental hospitals to see that appropriate standards of patient care are maintained.

Hospital

Address

Administrator

Capacity*

Public

Clifton T. Perkins State Hospital

Crownsville State Hosp. Eastern Shore State Hosp. Esther Loring Richards

Children's Center Rosewood State Training

School Springfield State Hospital Spring Grove State Hosp. Sylvan Retreat University of Maryland

Jessup, Md. Crownsville, Md. Cambridge, Md.

Owings Mills, Md.

Owings Mills, Md. Sykesville, Md. Catonsville, Md. Cumberland, Md. Baltimore, Md.

Dr. Jacob Morganstern, Supt. Dr. Charles S. Ward, Supt. Dr. George E. Currier, Supt.

300 1985 430

Dr. Joseph J. Reidy, Dir.

60

Dr. George C. Medairy, Supt. Dr. Robert Gardner, Supt. Dr. Bruno Radauskas, Act. Supt. Mr. Raymond Messmer, Supt. Dr. Eugene Brody, Dir.

2352 2986 2293

90 62

Private Brook Lane Farm

Cedarcroft Hospital and Sanitarium, Inc.

Chestnut Lodge Gundry Sanitarium

Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic

Laurel Sanitarium Pinecrest Sanitarium

Riggs Cottage Seton Institute

Sheppard & Enoch Pratt Hospital

Taylor Manor (formerly Pinel) Mental Defective

Bell Home

Ferrina Home

Hinkson Home

Tipahato

Route 5 Hagerstown, Md.

Silver Spring, Md. Rockville, Md. 2 N. Wickham Road

Baltimore 29, Md.

Baltimore, Md. Laurel, Md. 600 S. Chapel Gate La.

Baltimore 29, Md. Ijamsville, Md. 6420 Reisterstown Rd.,

Baltimore 15, Md.

Towson, Md.

Ellicott City, Md.

6403 Ager Road West Hyattsville, Md. 3304 Lancer Drive West Hyattsville, Md. Columbia Pike, Star Route, Ellicott City, Md. Blue Ridge Summit, Maryland

Dr. Gilles Morin

38

Dr. Henry Andren, Med. Dir.

50

Dr. Dexter Bullard, Med. Dir.

90

Dr. Rachel Gundry, Med. Dir.

40

Dr. John C. Whitehorn, Med. Dir. 92

Dr. Jesse Coggins, Med. Dir.

90

Mr. Hammond Dorsey, Dir.

24

Dr. Joseph Lerner, Med. Dir.

30

Dr. Leo Bartemeier, Med. Dir. 305

Dr. Harry Murdock, Med. Dir. 250

Dr. Irving Taylor, Med. Dir.

95

Mrs. Thelma Bell

10

Mrs. Flora Ferrina

5

Mrs. Ella Hinkson

6

Mr. George Byrne

23

* Capacity figures are subject to fluctuation.

792615 State of Maryland DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HYGIENE ANNUAL REPORT

1960

ISADORE TUERK, M.D. Commissioner

STATE OF MARYLAND

DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HYGIENE

ISAOORE TUERK, M . D.

,

COMMISSIONER

STATE OFFICE BUILDING 301 W PRESTON STREET BALTIMORE 1, MARYLAND

TELEPHONE VERNON 7 - 9 0 O O

The Hon. J. Millard Tawes

Governor of Maryland

State House

Annapolis, Maryland

Dear Governor Tawes:

A statistical table showing the movement of patients through our State mental hospitals has been included in the enclosed booklet, Public Mental Health Program, Maryland-1960. We have the honor of submitting this publication as our Annual Report.

We areproud to direct your attention to the fact that our patient load has been reduced this year as increased therapeutic activity and improved facilities have permitted us to return patients to their homes in greater numbers than have come into the hospitals for treatment. With your continuing support, wecaneffectively shorten the period of illness for many sick people who might otherwise require extended hospitalization. We can look forward, also, to sustaining the discharged patient with increased medical andrehabilitative services in augmented and adequately staffed out-patient facilities so that relapse rates can be decreased.

We wish to acknowledge with grateful appreciation, the helpyou have given us toward achieving these goals, the thoughtful counsel of the Advisory Board, the Board of Review, and the searching attention of your financial advisers to our needs.

Respectfully,

Commissioner.

PROGRESS NOTES

1959-1960

Trends in Hospital Population

Maryland, like most other states, has been experiencing a slow but steady decline in its average mental hospital population in recent years. This number has decreased from 11,253 in 1956 to 11,096 in 1959, and is expected to reach 10,850 in 1960. This dramatic reversal of a long range trend has been accomplished despite a persistent increase in the annual total number of patients receiving treatment.

The solution to this apparent contradiction is readily ascertainable. The yearly number of both admissions and discharges at our hospitals has been increasing. Thus, in 1950 we had 1,953 total admissions. This figure rose to 4,025 in 1956 and is expected to exceed 4,500 in 1960. For the same periods of time, the number of live discharges is 1,149 (1950), 2,765 (1956) and an estimated 3,850 (1960). Between 1950 and 1960, our discharges increased by approximately 2,700 while admissions rose by about 2,550. During this time, the number of patients on leave from the hospitals, particularly on foster care, increased substantially. These two factors have been largely responsible for our declining average resident population.

The expanding admissions figures, reported from most of the United States, are dramatic proof that the number of individuals requiring hospitalization for some mental illness is not declining. Maryland's mental hospitals cared for 10,941 men, women, and children in 1950 and an estimated 16,000 in 1960. The comparable figures for the training schools are 1,758 and 2,700. Almost all of this increase is due to a rise in readmissions which, in turn, has resulted largely from the greatly expanded population of discharged patients.

Major progress has been made in shortening the average duration of hospitalization and thus increasing the number of discharges. In a recent ten year period, the percentage of admissions who were subsequently discharged within one year more than doubled.

This greater turnover in patient population imposes major burdens on this Department. Almost all segments of the hospital staff are closely involved in processing an admission or discharge. In addition, most intense and persistent treatment is usually administered during the early stages of hospitalization. Continued progress depends on expanding support and co-ordination of the mental health inpatient and out-patient services.

Building Program

Crownsville

A Rehabilitation Building is under construction. When completed, it will contain an auditorium-gymnasium, a patients' canteen, a classroom, an industrial shop, etc.

Plans are being developed for the alteration of "C" Building under an appropriation of $100,000. Originally, improvements were to be made only on the fourth floor of this building. Because of the proposed movement of patients to the Clifton T. Perkins State Hospital, the last session of the Legislature enacted legislation to move the restriction of the work to the fourth floor.

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