GREAT OAKS CENTER
Clifford P. Lockyer, Director
12001 Cherry Hill Road,
Silver Spring 20904 Telephone: 937-8800
Great Oaks Center was established by
Chapter 556, Acts of 1967, as the Metro-
politan Washington Retardation Center. It
adopted its present name in 1971. Great
Oaks Center opened in the Fall of 1970 to
serve mentally retarded persons from Cal-
vert, Charles, Montgomery, Prince George's
and St. Mary's counties. Great Oaks is the
first regional center to be initiated by the
Mental Retardation Administration.
The first phase of construction provided
care and training for 300 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, 1972 Repl. Vol.,
Art. 59, sec. 19).
A full range of comprehensive and di-
versified services and programs are provided
by the Center to all retarded individuals,
including respite care, for the counties
served. Services and programs in the areas
of education, training, and habilitation are
programmed in both the Center and in the
community for the facility's retarded
residents.
A day care program integrates into the
programs and services offered by Great
Oaks mentally retarded persons from the
five counties. A Continuum of Services
Team serves several outreach functions in
the community such as: training parents in
their homes to deal with the special prob-
lems of their children so that institutionali-
zation may be averted; working with teach-
ers in local schools to aid them with the
education and training needs of their men-
tally retarded students; assisting county
health departments and other community
agencies in the development of community
resources for the mentally retarded; and
follow-up with discharged residents to main-
tain them in the community.
Staff: 1975, 519; 1976, 522;
1977, 522. |
HIGHLAND HEALTH FACILITY
Rudolph Cush, Director
Sylvia Staples, Associate Director
5200 Eastern Ave.,
Baltimore 21224 Telephone: 276-7000
A Mental Retardation Unit and a Psy-
chiatric Screening and Evaluation Unit at
Baltimore City Hospitals "D" Building were
created by statute, admitting their first pa-
tients in November, 1972.
The services provided by the Mental
Retardation Administration are designed to
provide intensive habilitation for physically
handicapped, mentally retarded persons be-
tween the ages of 3-16 years. The major
emphasis is on mobilization training for
both nonambulatory and partially ambula-
tory retarded individuals. The Highland Fa-
cility is budgeted for 99 residents.
A special education program was estab-
lished in October, 1975 which focuses on
the special problems and needs of mentally
retarded residents of the Highland Health
Facility.
Staff: 1975, 97; 1976, 97; 1977, 97.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
MENTAL HYGIENE BOARDS
AND COMMISSIONS
Ethel Stern, Coordinator o] Boards
and Commissions
201 W. Preston Street,
Baltimore 21201 Telephone: 383-2709
Boards and Commissions assure quality
health care by administering licensure and
certification programs for the health pro-
fessions and carry out regulatory and in-
spection activities, as prescribed by law. The
activities of the boards and commissions are
supported by General Fund appropriations
and revenue derived from examination and
other fees is returned to the State's General
Fund.
ADVISORY BOARD OF
JUVENILE SERVICES
Chairman: Douglas H. Moore, 1978
Paul A. Dorf, 1977; Capt. Stanley 1. Kap-
low, 1977; Serafino Listro, 1977; George
F. Pappas, 1977; David Gray Ross, 1977; |
