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Show Mental health center schedules public open house November 12 Citizens of Springville and Mapleton are invited to an open op-en house for the Central Utah Community Mental Health Center Cen-ter at 160 East Center Street in Provo. The center will show its facilities there and at the Dunn Building at the State Hospital on Tuesday, November 12 from 1:30 p.m. until 9 p.m. The affair is sponsored by the Mental Health Association according ac-cording to Mrs. Hal M. Clyde, local board member. On that day visitors may see films and hear the program of the center discussed. They will also be welcomed at the State Hospital where patient panels will be held throughout the day with one at 7:30 p.m. for visitors vis-itors who can't come until evening. eve-ning. The center was opened in February 1967 to avoid unnecessary unnec-essary duplication of mental health services through consolidation consol-idation of program direction under one administrative head. The center serves Utah, Juab, Wasatch counties. Its purpose is to avoid, unnecessary hospitalization hospit-alization by providing service in the community and where hospitalization is indicated, to assist the patient and his family. fam-ily. The center currently is supervising su-pervising 67 patients at the hospital, 362 patients on an out-patient basis at the center and 24 patients who receive care under partial daily hospitalization hos-pitalization where they can remain re-main with their families and on regular jobs during part of each day. The center, during September of 1968, spent 294 hours in consultation and in aiding educational groups throughout the area served. According to the recently published annual report of the center, slightly more than 10 of the people receiving help at the center last year were from the Springville-Mapleton area. It is hoped that Springville citizens will acquaint themselves them-selves with the services of the center by visiting there next Tuesday. |
