New York State Interdepartmental Health Resources Board Minutes and Reports
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Overview of the Records
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Arrangement
Organized into two subseries: 1. Minutes, 1956-1959. 2. Plan and drafts of NYS Programs in Rehabilitation, 1958.
Chronological.
Scope and Content Note
The records document development of studies and projects to meet the needs of various rehabilitation clienteles served by State agencies. Each set of minutes has "exhibits" in the form of correspondence, proposals for studies and projects, drafts of reports, critiques and revisions that comprise a substantive record of the Committee's accomplishments.
The plan and drafts of the Committee's final report to the IHRB, New York State Programs in Rehabilitation (1958, revised 1959), written by the Board's Special Assistant, Joseph Fenton, list its most significant activities: information exchange; advice to the Joint Hospital Survey and Planning Commission on construction of rehabilitation facilities; review of Division of Vocational Rehabilitation projects; studies of personnel shortages in the rehabilitation field, and in State social work bureaus; study of sheltered workshop programs; dissemination of information on services for epileptics; study of rehabilitation needs in State correctional institutions, with specific reference to epileptic inmates, vocational rehabilitation services, and general medical supervision; study of problems of younger disabled persons needing long-term care facilities; and plans for a community-based rehabilitation field laboratory.
The report's appendices contain an estimate of the prevalence of disabled persons and their rehabilitation needs that was dropped from the 1959 revision, as well as statistics on state services and a directory to training programs.
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Related Material
B1113 Minutes and Reports of the Committee on Rehabilitation of the Interdepartmental Health and Hospital Council contains related records.
A0783 Health Planning Commission Subject Files contains related records.
10775 State Department of Health Departmental Committee on Rehabilitation Reports, Memoranda, and Minutes contains related records.
Processing Information
Separated from Series 10775, State Department of Health Departmental Committee on Rehabilitation Reports, Memoranda, and Minutes, in 1988.
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New York (State). Interdepartmental Health Resources Board. Committee on Rehabilitation
New York (State). Department of Health. Division of Medical Services
New York (State). Department of Social Welfare
New York (State). Joint Hospital Survey and Planning Commission
New York State Rehabilitation Hospital
New York (State). Division of Tuberculosis Hospitals
New York (State). Department of Mental Hygiene
New York (State). Education Department. Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
New York (State). Workmen's Compensation Board
New York (State). Department of Health. Bureau of Medical Rehabilitation
New York (State). Department of Correction
Social work with people with disabilities
People with disabilities--Institutional care