State Mental Health Institutions Study Committee (J)

Charge

1. In view of the sharp reduction in the average daily patient populations of the state mental health institutes over the past decade, should all four of the institutes continue to be operated exclusively as hospitals for the mentally ill?
2. Could the steady increase in the per-patient-per-day cost of care at the state mental health institutes be arrested or slowed
by using staff personnel for care and treatment of patients afflicted with disabilities other than mental illness?
3. Are staff and facilities at the state hospital-schools at Glenwood and Woodward adequate to provide proper care and treatment for the mentally retarded persons at these institutions?
4. What is to be the future role of the state and its facilities in meeting the needs of Iowa's mentally ill and mentally retarded
citizens for adequate are and treatment?