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from, but more must come to the localities where the services are being provided.” The budgetary squeeze has held pay increases to 2.3 percent this year, she reported. “We’ve laid off staff and cut back services, and we’ll continue to cut back services.”
“Why are people no longer being served in state institutions?” asked Supervisor Nelson Lane.
The national trend towards deinstitutionalization is prompted by two factors, Mrs. Gorman explained. First is the acknowledgement that those who are mildly retarded or who suffer from less severe forms of mental illness do not belong in mental hospitals and can be better served by day treatment and residential programs in their own communities. Second is the realization that they can be more cheaply served in the communities where the highest level of care in a residential program costs $7,500 annually compared to $28,000 at Western State Hospital.
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