Adequate Receiving Hospitals Mean Early Cures

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Ann Arbor News, March 3, 1937
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Adequate Receiving Hospitals Mean Early Cures: All Michigan mental hospitals are seeking adequate receiving hospitals. Such departments where newly admitted patients may be studied and given the physical or psychiatric attention their conditions demand are essential aids in the curing of curable mental ailments -- and a large share of cases are curable. In a well equipped receiving hospital of ample size, a patient is given the intensive attention he or she might receive in a general hospital if suffering from organic trouble. Special efforts are made at correct diagnosis and prompt application of proper treatments. Most cures are effected in the months immediately after hospitalization, particularly when patients are brought in soon after their disorders become manifest. This room in a newer receiving ward among Michigan state hospitals is as cheering as a room in a general hospital might be. And the patient is apparently well on the way toward recovery. Note the type of window used in a modern mental hospital. Each of the individual steel sashes opens only a few inches.