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Show 21 SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 1957 Utah County, Utah Fixture of the advanced and the obsolete SUNDAY HERALD ! - State Hospital Makes Gains But Needs 2ei Facilities to Get Accreditation U .1 1J: y : J 1 J , 1 1 4 i X t i,l in By JOAN GEYER j nrinnnn nnrW - . r - a 1 4i .A J tto .,1,' ' vm The name of Utah State Hos- its ab-ey pital was conspicuous-fsence from the 1957 list of ac- credited hospitals. Among 14 Utah hospitals ap- proved by the Joint ;Commission an Accreditation of Hospitals were Utah Valley Hospital, which handles a few psychiatric pa- tients, and Veterans Neuropsy- chiatric Hospital at Salt Lake City- - "We didn't even submit a re-quest for accreditation," said Dr. Owen Heninger, Utah State Hos- pital superintendent. To become accredited, a hos- pital must have adequate facili- ties. ! U - for social work gradu- But more important, it must approved for "psychology career ate psychiatric training In Utah a many states &taff to meet minimum psychology department is of treatment has not yet standards of medical care. headed by Dr. William Fawcett to medical UP advances, utah state has who with his wife, Dr. Ida caufht top staf as late Utah 1934' members but not enough of Hill, are conducting federal re-60 PaUent them. search in group therapy. Ccn!11pf. da,y oa.cuswxHal First psychology internists, hospitai has Iq 195?j Morrill and Malcolm Lie- - In 1953. Utah's per capita in- Reed needs and sven psychiatrists has 12 pSyChiatric nurses brode, will spend four years with vestment in care of the mentally lg have 70. Th hospital time divided between University iU was slightly over half the na- and has (iye psychologistsi needs 20. of Utah classes and resident work tl0nal average, and Utah ranked JtJ has too few psychiatric social at Utah .State Hospital. Dr. llth among western states. workers and therapists, and a Ernst Beier, chief of the univer- - In the biennium ending June 30, high turnover of attendants be- - sity's clinical training depart- - 1956, Utah State Hospital had a budget of $2,676,629, including cause of substandard wages. ment, will serve as consultant. in ac$401,567 now not is still fees, State is. State Hospital patients' Hospital training credited to train resident physi- - student nurses from Brigham in the biennium ending Jun cians in psychiatry. Young University and the Uni- - 30, 1956, the budget was $3,303,- It has been accredited to train versity of Utah in basic psychla- - 475, including $506,485 in patients' psychologists; and this year was trie nursing; and it is approved fees. The 1957 legislature appropriated $3,900,000 which, with patients' fees, would give the hospital about $4,200,000. In terms of medical care for the individual, Utah spent about ft $3 per day per patient during co! I """ the beginning of the last biennium and $3.57 at the end. It expects to spend about $4 per pa- - VJ 1 if? v f Editor's Note: This picture page, showing advancements and needs of the Utah State Hospital in its program for care and treatment of the mentally ill, climaxes a series entitled "SEQUEL, TO 'THE SECRET SICKNESS " just concluded in The Herald. The articles have been written by Joan Mack Geyer, Herald staff writer, who in 1955 won a national award for her original series on mental illness entitled "The Secret Sickness." tient per day during the next biennium. This sounds good until you compare it with the $22.78 spent per day per patient at a good general hospital. The concept is growing that mental patients belong in a good general hospital with top psychiatric staff; that psychiatry should be more closely related to general medicine; that a mental patient needs multiple treatment 19-arti- cle l STUDENT NURSES BRING "BREATH OF SPRING" TO BLEAK WARDS Brigham Young University nurses, Nancy Hatcher, left, and Judy Malzahn, right, wheel aged mental patient to window overlooking grounds of State Hospital. "Young nurses were like breath of spring," said one patient. 'ZZY i yr 1 1 . f- -s of mind and body. paresis has, been brought under control with antibiotics for syphilis. Pellagra dementia disappeared with knowledge of vitamin deficiency. Epilepsy is being controlled with drugs, and research seems on th verge of bringing schizophrenia under control with concept that this disease is a biochemical lack or imbalance, treatable with tranquilizing drugs and psychotherapy. But looming on the mental illness horizon are new threats: Large numbers of mental breakdowns due to arteriosclerosis, and increasing numbers of aged with senile degeneration. All of thes patients need simultaneous treatment of psychiatry and general medicine. Utah State Hospital therefor took a big step forward with n Once-commo- STATE HOSPITAL'S FIRST SCHOOL IS TAUGHT BY JOANN RICHARDS Teenagers able to attend classes are taught at Utah State Hospital by JoAnn Richards, an accredited teacher provided by the Subjects inclade geography, literature and typing. Utah has no resident psychiatric center for children. Last biennium 36 juveniles were admitted to State Hospital. Board-of-Educatio- I ,,,,.,,1, " V'l "T1IW . .1 11 1 tan uin ,., .. ,!; 0 rp l itii rt. Jtf - ' h .. completion in RECOVERY HIGHER IN MODERN WARD Dr. Roger Nurse and Beverley Hoyt (above) adKiger, psychiatrist, minister oxygen and intervenous fluid in M-- S ward in new Medical-SurgicBuilding. Note screened window oxygen and intravenous fluid in M-- S ward in Other 26 wards resemble Ward eight (below). 1957 in-mini- al 1955 of its modern building and by legislation to provide marital counseling and alcoholic rehabilitation. But Utah suffered a serious setback when the 1957 legislature failed to appropriate $3,000,000 Medical-Surgica- l enabling for a psychiatric receiving and treatment center, recommended by the Central Inspection ComAmerican Psychiatric mittee, Association six years ago. States with good psychiatric centers find many patients need not be hospitalized. Ut0dnCubncShealthlilevS which mighthave financed them did p"ifjV-,,1!- '4 out-patie- nt PATIENT DRAMATIZES OWN FEARS IN CLASS FOR ATTENDANTS Who can better explain the terrifying experience of mental illness than a patient? Here a convalescent patient portrays for attendants in training irrational fears she experienced during acute stage of illness. Dr. Owen Heninger, superintendent, feels three weeks training course for attendants is a major advance . . . but a better. full year of tsychiaric training wonH in-serv- (Continued on Page 24) ice V .. t ' ' i?v 4 - .,."1 ' ' " S UTAH ; ? KANSA S ' 1 t.'V It .: t'. . "V V ,; " - ' : 1 : -r - ' , ; . ; :, ri Y ' ' LXX. " " - I k U "7 ... 'J , ' f y, h- f ' . - ! f. 'v. . X , J I v - ? I I I (V:' fi - :ilJYl Vl (cthied) " LEAKING ROOF ADDS TO MISERY ? OF ANCIENT WARD-Phyl- lis Klein, riht, and shift supervisor Maude behind Reed, her; man bucket brigade as Ward Eight's leaking roof drips rain into crowded dormitory and dining hall. Note steel bars on windor and patient with bucket to keep her bed dry. Contrast this to modern ward above. ONE-WA- WINDOW Y psychologist, observes Dr. Wjlliam Fawcett Hill, chief patieiits in , group therapy vision window. Patients "see only "mir- through ror" on other side ofwallThey are aware they are watched and conversationtaped as part of federal one-wa- y ii , 'Yi,:ry I : J ,- ' i " t i ' , .; r i CUftED I. RECOVERY RATE DEPENDS ON BUDGET Last Utah cent 26 of 2,458 biennium, discharged per patients registered. By contrast one Utah ward --modern M-- S discharged 60 per cent in .one year. Kansas with 33 per cent recovery rate in 1949 tripled its budget, and achieved recovery rate of 82.2 per cent, most cases within thre to six months. |