Services to the Aging (Day Care for the Elderly,
Geriatrio Evaluation Services, and Home Health
Services) and Institutional Services to the Aging,
which operates the Tawes Bland Bryant Nursing
Home and gives program guidance to other long-
term care facilities.

The Hospital Treatment Services Program
provides direction to the three chronic disease
hospitals—Deer's Head Center, Western Maryland
Center, and Montebello—whose mission is to pro-
vide care for persons who require constant medical
and nursing care by reason of chronic illness or in-
firmity or who are suffering from chronic disability
amenable to rehabilitation. Besides the chronic
hospital level of care. Deer's Head Center operates
a kidney dialysis unit and Western Maryland Cen-
ter operates a Day Care for the Elderly program, a
skilled nursing care unit, and a kidney dialysis unit.
In addition, the program operates Mt. Wilson Cen-
ter, which has tuberculosis, chronic obstructive
lung disease, and nursing home components.

The Maryland End-Stage Kidney Disease Pro-
gram ensures access to needed services for all
patients suffering from irreversible kidney disease
through a reimbursement program and through
planning and coordination of activities,

DEER'S HEAD CENTER
Edward G. Phoebus, J.D„ Director

P. 0. Box 2018
Salisbury 21801 Telephone: 742-2164

Deer's Head Center, authorized by Chapter 994,
Acts of 1945, was established in 1950. It is the re-
gional facility for chronically ill and aging adults in
need of physical medicine and rehabilitation
services, or general medical care for chronic
diseases or terminal illness. The Center also
operates a kidney dialysis facility for area residents.
The licensed capacity for the Center is 405 patient
beds.

MONTEBELLO CENTER
Solomon Oladstein, Director

2201 Argonne Drive
Baltimore 21218 Telephone: 889-3080

Montebello Center, authorized by Chapter 412,
Acts of 1951, opened in 1953 as the principal unit
of the chronic disease hospital system. The Center
provides hospitalization tor chronically ill and ag-
ing adults in need of physical medicine and rehabil-
itation services, or in need of general medical care
for chronic diseases or terminal illness.

MT. WILSON CENTER
Joseph A. Lilli, Director

Mount Wilson 21112 Telephone: 486-7676

Mt. Wilson, established in 1925, is the State's in-
stitution for the treatment of patients with tubercu-
losis and other chronic lung diseases. With the de-
cline in the number of tuberculosis cases a portion
of the hospital has been converted to use for geriat-
ric and mentally retarded patients.

WESTERN MARYLAND CENTER
Wilfred T. Tumbusch, M.D., Director

Hagerstown 21740 Telephone: 739-6300

Western Maryland Center, originally Western
Maryland State Hospital, authorized by Chapter
53, Acts of 1952, was opened in 1957 and currently
has 139 licensed beds for rehabilitation services and
the care of the chronically ill. An outpatient unit is
maintained to provide hemodialysis for patients
with chronic kidney disease. The Center is also li-
censed for thirty-six skilled nursing home beds.

LOCAL HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
Jean Rose Stifler, M.D., M.P.H., Director

201 W. Preston Street
Baltimore 21201 Telephone: 383-2640

Local health departments provide services to the
residents of the State through their staffs of public
health nurses, sanitarians, and other health
workers. The Administration provides consultation
and assistance to local health officers in the devel-
opment of programs to meet the needs of the popu-
lation served.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR
SPECIAL PROGRAMS

Theodore G. Lucas

201 W. Preston Street
Baltimore 21201 Telephone: 383-7328

The position of Assistant Secretary for Special
Programs (Juvenile Services, Mental Retardation,
and proposed Developmental Disabilities Admini-
strations) was established during the fiscal year
1976. He has overall responsibility on a Depart-
mental basis for the management, organization,
and direction of the Administrations within the
Assistant Secretariat and the development of a col-
laborative working relationship of these
Administrations within the Department of Health
and Mental Hygiene. He designs and recommends
policies, procedures, and standards that will insure