Research

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Creator:

Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)

 

 

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The monthly reports of the Board of Visitors of Willard Psychiatric Center consist of superintendent/directors' reports and Board of Visitors meeting minutes. The reports discuss epidemics; patient and staff health; accidents; department reports; statistics related to admissions, deaths, and discharges; .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

2

Creator:

Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)

 

 

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This series consists of various records considered to be historical that were collected or retained by the Willard Asylum for the Insane (later Willard State Hospital and Willard Psychiatric Center). Records include chapel books; hospital rules and regulations; patient and staff handbooks; orientation .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

3

Creator:

Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)

 

 

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This series consists of photographic materials such as prints, slides, postcards, and film from Willard Psychiatric Center. Images span the institution's history providing extensive visual documentation of most daily activities. Images of staff and patients, both in groups and individually, include .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

4

Creator:

Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)

 

 

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This series consists primarily of black-and-white photographs depicting students and facilities of the Willard State Hospital School of Nursing. Venues and activities include classroom, laboratory, and operating room instruction; commencement ceremonies; study; formal group photos of classes, by year; .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

5

Creator:

Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)

 

 

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This series consists of newsletters produced by the Willard State Hospital (later Willard Psychiatric Center) to document hospital activities and to provide information of interest to the local community as well as to patients and staff of the hospital. Newsletters contain articles, announcements, reports .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

6

Creator:

Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)

 

 

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This series consists of registers of admitted and discharged patients at Willard State Hospital (later Willard Psychiatric Center). Also included are a few quarterly or annual statistical summaries. Earliest registers include marital status; habits (snuff, tobacco, etc.); nativity; occupation; religion; .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

7

Creator:

Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)

 

 

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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

 

8

Creator:

Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)

 

 

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These records include newsletters, circular letters, and memorandums relating to administrative policies, procedures, and activities distributed to Willard State Hospital (later Willard Psychiatric Center) by the Department of Mental Hygiene. Also included are statistical reports; lists of patients' .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

9

Creator:

Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)

 

 

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This series consists of books documenting Willard State Hospital ward admissions, transfers, and censuses. Information includes patient name; and ward or building. Also included is a "Tranquilizer record" which includes patient name; identification number; and date tranquilizer use began or ended. Records .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

10

Creator:

Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)

 

 

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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

 

11

Creator:

Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)

 

 

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This series consists of a variety of inspection reports including night watch reports, which document supervising nurses' visits to sick patients; weekly ward inspections by assistant physicians, which contain observations regarding cleanliness of facilities and recommendations for improvement of conditions .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

12

Creator:

Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)

 

 

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This series consists of subject files documenting the work of Father Thomas J. Florack, Hospital Chaplain at Willard State Hospital (later Willard Psychiatric Center). A large portion of the series consists of sermons (homilies). Also included are memorandums from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester; .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

13

Creator:

Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)

 

 

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This series consists of a variety of fiscal records created by Willard State Hospital (later Willard Psychiatric Center including a journal recording amounts and prices of farm produce consumed and produced and numbers of livestock on hand; a Treasurer's report with detailed listing of all expenditures .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

14

Creator:

Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)

 

 

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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

 

15

Creator:

Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)

 

 

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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

 

16

Creator:

Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)

 

 

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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

 

17

Creator:

Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)

 

 

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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

 

18

Creator:

Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)

 

 

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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

 

19

Creator:

Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)

 

 

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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

 

20

Creator:

Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)

 

 

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This series consists of minutes, memoranda, and calendars relating to meetings held by Willard Psychiatric Center and Willard State Hospital committees in the Psychiatric, Nursing, and Medical Departments. Most records do not identify patients..........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives