174/Maryland Manual
Teams that initiate, coordinate, and evaluate pro-
grams in five designated regions of the State.
Team members provide consultation and assis-
tance to local governments and other local re-
sources agencies in the development of plans, pro-
gram priorities, and requests for funds.
GREAT OAKS CENTER
Clifford P. Lockyer, Health Facilities Program
Director
12001 Cherry Hill Road
Silver Spring 20904 Telephone: 595-5040
Great Oaks Center was established by Chapter
556, Acts of 1967, as the Metropolitan Washing-
ton Retardation Center. It adopted its present
name in 1971. Great Oaks Center opened in the
fall of 1970 to serve mentally retarded and devel-
opmentally disabled persons from Calvert, Char-
les, Montgomery, Prince George's, and St. Mary's
counties. Great Oaks was the first regional center
to be initiated by the Mental Retardation and De-
velopmental Disabilities Administration.
The first phase of construction provided care
and training for 200 mentally retarded residents
and a thirty-bed infirmary. The second phase of
construction was completed in September 1974,
providing living and programming space for an
additional 270 residents (Code 1957, Art. 59, sec.
19)
A full range of comprehensive and diversified
services and programs are provided by the Center
to retarded and developmentally disabled individ-
uals, including respite care, for the counties
served. Services and programs in the areas of edu-
cation, training, and habilitation arc programmed
in both the Center and in the community for the
facility's retarded residents.
A day care program integrates with the pro-
grams and services offered by Great Oaks. A
Continuum of Services Team serves several out-
reach functions in the community, such as train-
ing parents in their homes to deal with the special
problems of their children so that institutionatiza-
tion may be averted. The Team also works with
teachers in local schools to aid them with the ed-
ucation and training needs of their mentally re-
tarded and developmentally disabled students.
County Health Departments and community
agencies are assisted in the development of re-
sources tor the mentally retarded and develop-
mentally disabled. The Team also follows up with
|
discharged residents to assist them in their main-
tenance in the community.
HENRYTON CENTER
Deloris M. Miller, Director
Henryton 21080 Telephone: 795-2400
This Center was established by Chapter 464,
Acts of 1922, for the care of tuberculosis patients.
Effective July 1, 1963, by Chapter 110, Acts of
1963, the hospital was transferred to the Depart-
ment of Mental Hygiene. A training and habilita-
tion program is conducted for severely and pro-
foundly retarded ambulatory residents ages
eighteen years and over. Admission is through
the Mental Retardation and Developmental Dis-
abilities Administration of the Division of Special
Services. A number of the Center's residents par-
ticipate in community-based activity programs.
Respite care is available on a limited basis to
Howard, Carroll, Anne Arundel, and Harford
counties. Requests for respite care also are made
through the Division of Special Services. Hen-
ryton is licensed for 330 residents.
HIGHLAND HEALTH FACILITY
Hazel Smith, Program Administrator
5200 Eastern Avenue
Baltimore 21224 Telephone: 276-7000
A Mental Retardation and Developmental
Disabilities Unit and a Psychiatric Screening and
Evaluation unit at Baltimore City Hospitals' "D"
Building were created by statute, admitting their
first patients in November 1972.
The services provided are designed to provide
intensive habilitation for physically handicapped,
mentally retarded, and developmentally disabled
persons between three and sixteen years of age.
The major emphasis is on mobilization training
for both nonambulatory and partially ambulatory
individuals. The Highland Facility is budgeted for
ninety-nine mentally retarded and developmental-
ly disabled residents and forty-seven pyschiatric
residents.
A special education program was established in
October 1975, which focuses on the special prob-
lems and needs of mentally retarded and develop-
mentally disabled residents of the facility.
|
