268/Maryland Manual

The Administration operates eight facilities:
Brandenburg Center, Victor Cullen Center, Great
Oaks Center, Highland Health Facility Mental Re-
tardation Unit, Holly Center, Potomac Center,
Rosewood Center, and the Mental Retardation
Unit of the Walter E Carter Community Mental
Health and Retardation Center. The Community
Services Advisory Commission, the Advisory Coun-
cil for the Program for Hearing-Impaired Infants,
and numerous citizens advisory boards also serve
the Administration.

BRANDENBURG CENTER
Carolyn K. Brown, Program Administrator

EO. Box 1722
Country Club Road
Cumberland, MD 21502 777-2250

Opened in 1978 as the Thomas B. Rnan Cen-
ter—Mental Retardation Unit, the Center adopted
its present name in 1981. Brandenburg Center is a
multipurpose health facility serving the residential
needs of retarded adults in Allegany and Garrett
counties (Code 1957, Art. 59A, sec. 19).

The Center provides occupational, physical,
speech, and hearing therapies; social services; and
medical supervision for its clients. It habilitates
clients so they may return to the community. The
Center is funded for an average daily population of
48 people. (Code Health—General Article, sec.
7-305).

CITIZENS ADVISORY BOARD FOR BRANDENBURG
CENTER

Chairperson: Albert Coviello, 1989

Wilba McLaughlin, 1989; Betty June Dougan,
1990; Randjit S. Dhillon, 1991; Kevin Kelly,
1991; Suzanne Brandenburg, 1992; Joseph F.
Yutzy, 1992.

The Governor, upon recommendation of the
Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, appoints
the Board's seven members to four-year terms.

WALTER P. CARTER CENTER, MENTAL
RETARDATION UNIT

Patricia F. Whitmore, Ph.D., Administrator
George A. Lentz, M.D., Director, Mental
Retardation Unit

630WFayetteSt.
Baltimore, MD 21201 328-2139
328-2214

The Mental Retardation Unit at the Walter E
Carter Center offers an intensive behavior manage-
ment program for clients with special behavior
problems. The program seeks to eliminate the need
for returning developmentally disabled persons to
institutional care.

Overseen by the Developmental Disabilities Ad-
ministration, the Unit provides inpatient services
for an average daily population of 11 persons.
Inpatient care is designed for mentally retarded
persons who have challenging behaviors and need
intensive short-term services to return to the com-
munity. The Unit also supervises forensic evalua-
tions and conducts public policy research for the
Developmental Disabilities Administration.

For community service providers, the Unit pro-
vides training in areas such as medication manage-
ment and management of disruptive behaviors.
Additionally, the Unit serves as an audiovisual and
training resource center for community service pro-
viders funded by the Developmental Disabilities
Administration (Code Health—General Article,
sec. 10-406).

CITIZENS ADVISORY BOARD FOR WALTER £
CARTER CENTER, MENTAL RETARDATION UNIT

Chairperson: Kenneth N. Oliver, 1991

Mental Retardation Board: Doris H. Silver, 1988;
five vacancies.

The seven members of the Board are appointed
to four-year terms by the Governor upon recom-
mendation of the Secretary of Health and Mental
Hygiene.

VICTOR CULLEN CENTER
Steven M. Haigh, Program Administrator

Sabillasville, MD 21780 791-4797

Origins of the Victor Cullen Center date to
1908, when the State Sanatorium was established.
In 1949, the Board of Public Works renamed the
Sanatorium as the Victor Cullen State Hospital, a
tuberculosis hospital under the oversight of the
State Department of Health. In 1965, the Victor
Cullen School was established as a training school
for male minors under the State Department of
Public Welfare (Chapter 818, Acts of 1965). The
School, in 1967, became part of the Juvenile Ser-
vices Administration. In January 1974, it was trans-
ferred from the jurisdiction of Juvenile Services to
what is now the Developmental Disabilities Admin-
istration. The School was then renamed the Victor
Cullen Center.

The Center is oriented toward a nonmedical
model of education, training, and habilitation for its
severely and profoundly retarded residents.
Residents are prepared to return to the community
within a five-year period by individualized pro-
grams designed to achieve that goal. Services are
provided by doctors, dentists, speech therapists,
occupational therapists, physical therapists, and
pharmacists in the local community. More than half
of the residents attend day training in the commu-
nity. The Center is budgeted for an average daily