Zone centers back up counties new methods bring hope
Seven year old Jimmy’s case shows the Illinois zone center system functioning as a back up for county mental health services. The John F Kennedy Hall unit at Springfield and the Adolf Meyer Zone Center at Decatur illustrate multi sensory reading methods and family involvement improving behavior and learning.
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Walter E. Wolff
Lindsay-Schaub Newspapers
Jimmy
Springfield
Sangamon County Mental Health Center
Jimy
Andrew McFarland
John F. Kennedy
Charles Beck
Ann LaMothe
Kennedy Hall
Betty Abbott
Dr. Beck
Illinois
Illinois Community Centers Cut State Hospital Referrals
The article details how eight counties in Illinois reduced admissions to Kankakee State Hospital and other state facilities through community based care. Zone centers in Rockford Decatur Champaign and other cities expanded local psychiatric wards and outpatient services while debates over funding staffing and prioritizing mentally retarded children continued. Major figures include Dr Harold Visotsky Gov Otto Kerner and Rep Richard Ogilvie. The plan aims to keep treatment local and open to the community rather than rely on distant state hospitals.
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East St. Louis
Alton State Hospital
Meyer Zone Center
Walter E. Wolff
Lindsay-Schaub
Illinois
Macon
Moultrie
Shelby
Pratt
DeWitt
Kankakee State Hospital
Effingham County
Winnebago
Boone
H. Douglas Singer
Rockford
Saline County
Anna State Hospital
Decatur
St. Mary’s
Macon County
Kankakee
Lewis Kurke
Lincoln and
Dixon State
Department of Mental Health
Harold M. Visotsky
Visotsky
Otto Kerner
Richard B. Ogilvie
GOP
Decatur-Champaign
Effingham
Livingston County
McLean
John F. Kennedy
Joint Commission On Mental Illness and Health
Congress
Francis J. Gerty
Illinois Department of Public Welfare
Gerty
American Pschiatric Association
University of Illinois Medical School
Department of Psychiatry
Dr. Gerty
State Hospital
Springfield
Decatur- Champaign
Champaign
University of Timvis
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Chicago North
Chicago South
Alexander
Tinley Park Mental Health Center
Nle Park
Kankakee State
William W.foxx
Dwight
Peoria Zone
Adolf Meyer
UNI
Pecata
East St.louis
Carbondale
criTer
Adolf Meyer Zone Center
Meyer Zone
Champaign County
Johanna DeVries
Urbana
Department of Public Aid
Bernard R. Wagner
Nancy Davis
Wood River High School
H. Douglas
Rock Fore
Galesburg State Research Hospital
Galesburg
Peoria State Hospital
Peoria
George A. Zeller
Adams
Lincoln State School
Lincol J
Acksonville State Hospital
Sacksonville
Dixon State School
Dixon
Fast Moline State Hospital
Fast Moline
Elgin State Aosp
TFIL
Elgin
Whiteside
L” "Ngfield
Alton State Hospital, Alton
Illinois Security Hospital
Menard
Anna
Rockford Zone
Charles F. Read
Cago
Chicago State Hospital
Chicago
Manteno State
Manteno
Aik Nankakee
Po Herman M. Adler Zone Center Childrens Unit
Douglas
Washington
Jefferson
Franklin
Perry
Jackson
Williamson
Edgar
Warren G. Murray Children's Center
Centralia
A.L. Bowen
Harrisburg
Px State Institution For
Patricia Fultz
John F. Kennedy Hall
McFarland Zone Center
Adolf Meyer Zone
Marion
Richland
Sangamon
Lake Counties
Community Clinic
Zone Center
Youth Commission
Harold Visotsky
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