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Duke’s specialized psychiatric treatment techniques used at Highland include individual and group psychotherapy, p s y ch o ph a rm acological therapy, electroconvulsive shock treatment, recreational and occupational therapy, behavior therapy and psychodrama. An integral part of the treatment program for every patient is active involvement in the supervised programs of the activities services. The 17-member service team consists of occupational and recreational therapists, a music therapist and an art therapist. Facilities housed in the Charmon Carroll Activities Building include studios for music and art therapy, occupational therapy, large multi-purpose recreation rooms, a patient library and additional areas for recreational therapy. Also included in the activities complex are outdoor facilities: a swimming pool, tennis and volleyball courts, athletic fields, numerous walking trails on the grounds, a greenhouse and a woodworking shop. In addition to the regularly scheduled daytime and evening events designed to fill a patient's rehabilitative and recreational needs, horseback riding, group hiking and overnight camping trips off the hospital grounds are also offered as favorite activities during the warmer months. As part of a comprehensive treatment center. Highland established a Department of Outpatient Services in December of 1972. The department, which includes an Outpatient Clinic and Day Care Center, provides psychiatric evaluation and treatment for individuals DR. CHARLES W. NEVILLE Fetal Deaths (Continued from page 1) The division also has two faculty fellows. Dr. Marcus Pupkin and Dr. James Storer. The grant will enable the division to buy maternal and fetal electronic monitoring equipment and to hire a medical social worker to evaluate the home situations of high-risk obstetrical patients and to coordinate needed services from community agencies or the medical center. The social worker will also coordinate the follow-up of the infant in the Intensive Care Nursery and the home. Duke already operates high risk obstetrical clinics in Person, Warren and Halifax counties as well as at the hospital and plans to set up clinics in six more counties. These screening clinics will refer their complicated cases to the Perinatal Medicine division, where a continuous and intensive assessment can be made of the mother and her fetus. -YVONNE BASKIN Mountain Hospital (Continued from page 1) who are able to live in the community. The department serves inpatients discharged to outpatient status, former patients readmitted to the Outpatient Clinic, day patients, and people in the community who need treatment, but not hospitalization. The staff consists of a full-time nurse, consulting psychiatrist and psychiatric social worker. In an effort to expand its liaison work in the community, the Outpatient Clinic provides consultation service to groups and social agencies, as well as to individuals. By acting as an alternative to complete hospitalization, the Day Care Clinic provides a supportive, therapeutic environment which avoids the aspects of hospitalization that envelopes the patient and insulates him from family and community life. The clinic is also ' used as a transitional treatment program for individuals discharged from inpatient care to outpatient status. In line with patient care, Highland offers its younger patients continued academic education. During the last few years. Highland has developed an increasing array of specialized facilities and programs. There are planned activities for patients of different ages with emphasis on programs for both adolescent and young adult groups. The most important new program is the hospital's on-ground junior and senior high school facility called Homewood School which started five years ago with 10 students and one teacher. Today the school, with its 22 classrooms, handles 57 students with seven full-time teachers and nine specialists from the activities department. Homewood School is supported by the Homebound Teachers Program of the State of North Carolina Department of Education and Highland Hospital. It Is accredited as a part of the Asheville City School System. Each student's academic curriculum is planned on an individual basis, taking : into account his interests, capabilities, and credits needed for graduation. Students also receive instruction in art, music and physical education. Last year ' the school offered for the first time a program in occupational education which currently includes training in such areas as carpentry, horticulture, bricklaying, and auto mechanics, to name a few. -; According to Frances Taylor, principal of Homewood School, "The I school is a success because it creates an , atmosphere in which self-motivation evolves, and a desire for learning builds in the student until he develops sufficient confidence and self-discipline to function and achieve successfully outside the hospital environment. While the majority of the students at Homewood are inpatients, some attend the school as outpatients and ■ day-patiehts. Outpatient students are i under a doctor's supervision, receive treatment at Highland's Outpatient Clinic and return home every day after their classes end. Day-patient students are enrolled in the full Day Care Clinic program, spend their entire day participating in therapeutic activities at Highland, and return home only to sleep. For patients interested in college work, U NC-Asheville is within easy walking distance of the hospital. This liberal arts college is a branch of the Consolidated University of North Carolina and patients can usually arrange to matriculate quite conveniently. Aside from ministering to the cares of its patients, Highland Hospital has also become a teaching hospital for students interested in psychiatric training. The faculty at Highland is active in teaching psychiatry, psychology and psychiatric social work to medical students, psychiatric residents, physician's associates, student psychologists, social workers and nurses. At present. Highland offers five educational programs in addition to clinical rotation opportunities for nursing students. These programs include a recreational therapy internship, a three-year residency program in psychiatry, a psychiatric specialty program for physician's associates, an internship in clinical psychology at a masters level, and an internship in psychiatric social work. Along with teaching responsibilities, many of the faculty at Highland are involved in psychiatric and psychological research. The full resources of the Department of Psychiatry and of the Duke University Medical Center are available to the Highland staff. Highland, for its part, contributes to the professional and academic programs of the medical center and the Department of Psychiatry by providing patients and students with clinical and academic programs as well as vital patient care \ BACK TO THE BANKING BUSINESS— An Prosser, administrator of the Emergency Dept., is pictured at a farewell party given him by the Emergency Room staff. Nursing Supervisor Peggy Hoffman and secretary Delores Ford (right) presented him with a gold pen set and cigarette lighter as a token of the • department's esteem. Prosser, a former bank manager, has joined the consumer loan division of First Citizens Bank & Trust Co. in Raleigh. (Photo by David Williamson) treatments that complement those at Duke proper. -DALE MOSES Gower Succeeds Parrish As Hospital Laundry Head Edward T. Parrish, manager of the medical center laundry for 15 years, will retire Sept. 1, and L. Wilton Gower of Raleigh has been named to succeed him. Parrish, who has been connected with laundry operations for 45 years, came to Duke in 1958 to manage the laundry. Prior to his arrival, he served as head of the laundry at N. C. Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. Much of the success of Duke's washing and pressing operation which amounts to four million pounds of laundry a year, can be traced directly to him. Parrish traveled thousands of miles between 1962 and 1964 to get the best ideas for setting up the laundry plant as it now exists. When the present facility opened in 1965, a great deal of interest was created across the state and representatives from educational institutions as far away as Georgia and Tennessee came to study it. In 1965 Parrish was elected to a two-year term as president of the North Carolina Association of Institutional Laundry Managers, and in the same year he was named North Carolina Institutional Laundry Manager of the Year. He said that he has plans to divide his retirement time_ between fishing on the coast and organic gardening in Durham County. He said that he wished to thank all the "fine people at Duke" for their cooperation and assistance during his affiliation with the university. Before his appointment to the Duke Laundry post, Gower was assistant manager of eight laundries within the N.C. Departmen of Corrections System. He is currently serving as secretary-treasurer of the North Carolina Association of Institutional Laundry Managers. Gower said that Duke is in the process of converting many of its uniforms and linens to fabrics which contain a larger amount of polyester fibers to facilitate cleaning and reduce the amount of pressing which must be done. TOP JOB Edward T. Parrish (left), a man who has been associated with laundry operations for 45 years, will step down Sept. 1 as he*d of the medical center laundry and will be succeeded by L. Wilton Gower. (Photo by David Williamson)
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