Finding Aid Search Results
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Creator:
Willard State Hospital (N.Y.)
Abstract:
This series consists of correspondence to Willard State Hospital officials and their replies. Most concerns the disposal of the estates of patients who died at Willard State Hospital and/or inheritances bequeathed to patients. Other topics include patient condition inquiries; death and discharge notifications; .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)
Abstract:
This series consists of sign-in logbooks for the Willard State Hospital (later Willard Psychiatric Center) Board of Visitors. Special visits by board members to specific areas of the hospital are noted with dates and signatures, as well as attendance at regularly scheduled board meetings. Minutes of .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Willard State Hospital (N.Y.)
Abstract:
This series consists of inventories of equipment on wards at Willard State Hospital. Items inventoried include office furniture and equipment; recreational, janitorial, and medical equipment; and hospital furniture, apparatus, and equipment. Each item notes quantity, condition, and number requested .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)
Abstract:
This series was compiled by morgue personnel to document deaths. Information varies over time but typically includes date, patient number, building, names of attendants transporting body to the morgue, name of person giving religious rites, person identifying deceased, and name of person or funeral .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Willard State Hospital (N.Y.)
Abstract:
This series consists of scrapbooks primarily containing newspaper clippings relating to a variety of topics: Willard State Hospital; other mental institutions; mental health professions; medical societies; legislation; mental illness and its treatment. Also included are public announcements; proposed .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Series:
B1503
Dates:
1968-1991
Abstract:
This series consists of minutes of meetings of directors of regional mental health facilities. Minutes typically include memoranda; budget information; statistical tables; resolutions; agendas; plans and reports; and narratives of discussions. Topics include interpretation and impact of regulations; .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Willard State Hospital (N.Y.)
Abstract:
This series documents the use of a variety of therapies and the number of patients receiving therapies each month at Willard State Hospital. Some reports are categorized by ward; some list patients by name; some categorize information by gender of patient. Types of therapies include tranquilizing drugs, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Willard State Hospital (N.Y.)
Abstract:
This series consists of registers documenting patient paroles at Willard State Hospital. Early entries include parole date and name, relation, and address of person to whom the patient is paroled. Some entries include period of parole/expiration date. Most include results of parole (discharged, returned, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)
Abstract:
This series consists of daily census records created by the Willard Psychiatric Center (known earlier as the Willard State Hospital and even earlier as the Willard Asylum for the Insane) to keep an accurate daily account of numbers of patients admitted, discharged, and the total population. Other recorded .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Willard State Hospital (N.Y.)
Abstract:
This series consists of reports documenting formal inspections and official visits by Department of Mental Hygiene personnel to Willard Asylum for the Insane (later Willard State Hospital). Included are meeting minutes; observation notes on buildings and grounds tours as well as visitations with staff .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Willard State Hospital (N.Y.)
Abstract:
This series of clinical records typically includes patient name; date of commencement of ailment; result (recovered, improved, died); and a narrative of the patient's condition and treatment. One volume pertains only to men and covers a variety of ailments, diagnoses, and treatments. Three volumes contain .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)
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Series:
B1475
Dates:
1970-1979
Abstract:
This series consists entirely of news clippings and photographs from the office of the Director of Willard State Hospital (later Willard Psychiatric Center). The topic of the bulk of the clippings is an investigation of alleged patient abuse and administrative irregularities (1977-1978). Photographs .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Willard State Hospital (N.Y.)
Abstract:
This series consists of accident, injury, and escape reports prepared by the ward physician and other staff. The reports usually include date of report, name of patient, patient number, date of admission ward, mental diagnosis, age, date and time of incident. Accident reports also include patient's .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)
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Series:
B1504
Dates:
1962-1985, 1988-1995
Abstract:
This series consists of meeting minutes of the "Director's Cabinet" of Willard Psychiatric Center and its predecessor, the Executive Committee. Permanent members of these groups included the director, deputy directors, chief of psychiatry, director of nursing, director of personnel, and business off.........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)
Abstract:
This series consists of policy and procedure manuals for Willard programs and departments, with most submitted to or reviewed by the Quality Assurance office. Some manuals contain updates, notes, commentary, or review requests. All contain established administrative instructions for how each program .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)
Abstract:
The records in this series consist of surveys, censuses, reports, periodic medical reviews, accreditation information, correspondence, and memoranda pertaining to the planning and evaluation of programs at Willard Psychiatric Center. Surveys usually include raw responses from patients and staff, summary .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)
Abstract:
These files consist of physicians' orders for individual patients to undergo protective restraint or seclusion, and of regular statistical reports detailing the use of the practice at Willard Psychiatric Center (known earlier as Willard State Hospital). The Department of Mental Hygiene and later the .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)
Abstract:
These records consist of annual reports from individual units to the director of Willard Psychiatric Center (known earlier as Willard State Hospital), who used the reports to create Willard's official annual report to the State Legislature. Units that submitted reports include the business office, maintenance, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Willard State Hospital (N.Y.)
Abstract:
This series consists of patient medical records from Willard State Hospital and from the Sampson State School facility. Information for each record includes patient name; admission and discharge dates; gender; age; civil condition; nativity; occupation; cause and form of insanity and if inherited; cause .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Willard State Hospital (N.Y.)
Abstract:
This series consists of patient indexes created by staff of Willard Asylum for the Insane (later Willard State Hospital). Series consists of separate county and patient indexes. For some patients, the volume and page number given in the indexes refer to other series of patient case files; in other cases, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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