MENTAL HYGIENE
ADMINISTRATION

Stuart B Silver, M D , Director
James Stockdill, Deputy Director
Harvey Kalin, M D , J D , Clinical Director

201 W Preston St
Baltimore, MD 21201 225-6611

The Mental Hygiene Administration originated
in 1886 as the State Lunacy Commission (Chapter
487, Acts of 1886) The Commission was estab-
lished to inspect public and private institutions for
the insane and to advise their boards of managers
In 1922, the Commission was replaced by the
Board of Mental Hygiene (Chapter 29, Acts of
1922) The Board, in turn, was superseded by the
Department of Mental Hygiene in 1949 (Chapter
685, Acts of 1949) The 1949 law abolished not
unly the Board of Menral Hygiene, but also the
separate governing boards of the State mental
hospitals, and gave the Department of Mental
Hygiene responsibility for the custody, care, and
treatment of mentally ill persons The Department
of Mental Hygiene became part of the Department
of Health and Mental Hygiene in 1969 (Chapter
77, Acts of 1969) and subsequently was renamed
the Mental Hygiene Administration
The Administration oversees the Walter P Carter
Community Mental Health and Retardation Cen-
ter, Crownsville Hospital Center, Eastern Shore
Hospital Center, Thomas B Knan Hospital Cen-
ter, Highland Health Facility Psychiatric Unit, Clif-
ton T Perkins Hospital Center; the Regional
Institutes for Children and Adolescents at Bal-
timore, Clinton, and Rockville; Spnngfield Hospi-
tal Center; Spring Grove Hospital Center, Upper
Shore Community Mental Health Center, and
Tawes-Bland Bryant Nursing Home
To improve continuity of care between com-
munity and hospital programs, the Administration
has adopted a regional structure Assistant Direc-
tors serve Eastern, Western, Southern and Central
Maryland and the Baltimore metropolitan area
Their regional offices implement policies to shorten
length of hospital stays and improve community
mental health programs for the severely ill
The Administration is headed by a Director,
certified in psychiatry by the American Board of
Psychiatry and Neurology and appointed by the
Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene The
Director is responsible for dunes assigned by the
Secretary and for supervision of Mental Hygiene
Administration hospitals and facilities
Under the provisions of the Maryland Community
Mental Health Services Act of 1966, the Director of
Mental Hygiene, with the approval of the Secretary of
Health and Mental Hygiene, is empowered to make
State grants in-aid to further community mental

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health services (Chapter 125, Acts of 1966) The
Director supervises programs receiving these
grants in-aid The Act also provided for the estab-
lishment of local mental health advisory committees
(Code Health—General Article, sec 10-208)

MARYLAND ADVISOKT COUNCIL ON MENTAL
HTGIENE
Joseph I Pines, Chairperson, 1991

Appointed by Governor Richard Grumbacher, 1989,
Jay A Lebow, M D, 1990, Stephen T Baron,
1991, Susan Kadis, 1991, Mane C McCarthy,
1991; Alfred Muller, MD, 1991, Steven S
Sharfstem, M D , 1991; Katnna Boverman, 1992,
MarJone M Kabwit, 1992; David Rutherford,
1992; James W Taylor, 1992; Conrad Yung-Kwal,
1992; M Sue Diehl, 1993, Joyce Dooley, 1993,
John F Holbrook, 1993, Carol W Howe, 1993,
Pamcia H Roberts, 1993

225-6610

The Maryland Advisory Council on Mental
Hygiene was created in 1976 (Chapter 746, Acts of
1976) It advises the Mental Hygiene Administra-
tion in carrying our policies regarding the social,
economic and medical problems of mental hygiene
The Council's eighteen members are appointed
by the Governor for three-year terms (Code Health—
General Article, sees 10-301 through 10-305)

CLIFTON T PERKINS HOSPITAL CENTER
Chnstiane Tellefsen, M D , Acting Superintendent

PO Box 1000
Dorsey Run Road
Jessup, MD 20794 792-4022

The Clifton T Perkins Hospital Center was es-
tablished in 1959 as Maximum Security Hospital
(Chapter 814, Acts of 1959) It adopted its present
name in 1960 The Center provides treatment
programs within a setting of maximum security
The Center receives patients referred by the
courts of Maryland for pretnal psychiatric evalua-
tion It provides a residence for individual offenders
who have been found not guilty by reason of in-
sanity The Center also serves as a hospital for
prisoners who become mentally ill and require in
voluntary psychiatric hospitalizanon From other
State psychiatric hospitals, the Center also accepts
patients whose illness requires maximum security
treatment for a period of time The Center is funded
to serve a daily average of 250 patients (Code
Health—General Article, sec 10-406)

CITIZENS ADVISORY BOARD FOR CLIFTON T
PERKINS HOSPITAL CENTER

Joseph A Navarro, Ph D , Chairperson, 1992

Appointed by Governor upon recommendation of
Secretary of Health & Mental Hygiene Carolyn F