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D Aanes

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Follow-up of mentally retarded adults successfully and unsuccessfully placed in community group homes.

State hospital staff members compared 72 retarded adult patients who had been successfully placed in group homes in the community with 13 patients who had been placed but rehospitalized. No significant differences were found between the groups on the four variables of sex, age at the time of the study, age at first admission to the hospital, and time spent in the hospital. A comparison of preplacement problems listed in the patients' hospital records with the reasons for rehospitalization of the unsuccessfully placed group suggests that both hospital staff and group home parents find aggressive behaviors a problem, but that group home parents are more concerned than hospital staff with deficiencies in self-care.

Adult

Minnesota: the impact of a community hospital's psychiatric unit on a regional state hospital.

A community hospital serving part of a state hospital's receiving area opened a psychiatric inpatient unit. The authors studied the impact of the new unit on the number of psychiatric admissions to the state hospital, and also sought to determine if the two facilities provided duplicate services to the area. In comparing admission rates to the state hospital before and after the opening of the community unit, they found the unit did not have a significant impact. In comparing sample groups of patients at the two hospitals, they found that each served a different socioeconomic group and therefore did not offer duplicate services.

Hospitals, Community