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Administrative History
Prior to 1978, the Department of Mental Hygiene was responsible for various services to both the mentally disabled and the mentally ill, and for treatment oversight. In the furtherance of its mandated responsibilities, it received patient admission lists from public and private treatment facilities throughout New York State.
When the department split into the Office of Mental Health (OMH) and the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (OMRDD), staff separated the admission lists into two groups: those from facilities under OMRDD jurisdiction (including facilities that were of a type that would have come under OMRDD jurisdiction had it existed prior to 1978); and those that were, or would have been, under the jurisdiction of OMH.
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