Letchworth patients move to Middletown hospital next week
The first of 144 mentally retarded adults from Letchworth Village will transfer June 15 to Middletown State Hospital to join a newly created 104 staff unit. The move, part of a statewide plan to relieve crowding, is funded by a $12.4 million upgrade package.
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Mary Anne McEnery
Middletown
Letchworth Village
Middletown State Hospital
MSH
Harold Wolfe
State Department of Mental Hygiene
Albany
Wolfe
Thiells
Rockland County
Letchworth
Harlem Valley Hospital
Dutchess County
Creedmoor State Hospital
Queens
Frederic Grunberg
Amore del Guidice
del Guidice
Orange County
West Group
Sullivan County
Wassaic State School
Harlem Valley State Hospital
Wingdale
Willowbrook State School
Staten Island
Harlem Valley
Willowbrook
Judges and mental health officials meet for better talk
Orange County judges Isseks and Ingrassia met with mental health officials at Arden Hill Hospital to improve communication about criminals on probation. The session highlighted gaps between courts and county services, with calls for more information sharing, treatment guidance, and use of probation data to shape rulings.
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Orange County
Abraham S. Isseks
Isseks
Ingrassia
Murphy
Mental Health Department
Edward O’mally
Bernard C. Shuldener
Occupations, Inc
State training schools face employee layoffs
Otisville and Warwick State Training Schools plan layoffs to meet a 1972 73 budget cut. The division expects to reveal exact figures next week as enrollments drop. Union leaders oppose layoffs, urging attrition and cost reductions instead to keep the facilities open.
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Albany
Otisville
Warwick
Milton J. Luger
Theodore Scott
Civil Service Employer’ Association
CSEA
Scott
Luger
Church Vandalism Hits Newburgh Day Care and Church
Vandals broke into the First United Methodist Church in Newburgh early Monday. They splattered paint and damaged phonograph records in a Head Start classroom on the second floor and a day care center. Food was scattered after a freezer door was torn off the refrigerator. Principal Vivian Backofen reported the incident to police and described the disrupted rooms and damaged items.
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Newburgh
First United Methodist Church
Vivian Backofen
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