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...Erich Lindemann Mental Health Center opened in Government Center in November, 1970, as a combined project of the out-patient wing of the Massachusetts General Hospital's Department of Psychiatry and the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health. This facility has begun to give local Harbor Areas programs the same kind of help that the Cambridge-Somerville Mental Health and Retardation Center gives to its area. Besides pumping in money and staff to existing Harbor Area projects, the Lindemann Center has established new programs and provides valuable coordination. The Lindemann Center has 25 bed ward for Hardor Area residents, soon...
RATHER than reinstitutionalize psychiatric care into one central building, the Lindemann Center tries to coordinate an extensive network of community-based programs. Accordingly, it oversees and consults on out-patient psychiatric care at the North Suffolk Mental Health Center, the new Bunker Hill Health Center in Charlestown, and the Acute Psychiatric Service at the Massachusetts General Hospital...
...addition, the Lindemann Center coordinates several small, but growing, programs for emotionally disturbed and mentally retarded children, and children with learning disabilities. These include day care, transitional classes for retarded children about to enter public schools, and learning disabilities classes at the Lindemann Center. Within individual Harbor Area communities, the Center sponsors day activity programs, clinical nursery schools and treatment clinics for retarded and emotionally disturbed kids. In helping children, the Lindemann Center tries to catalyze and support local programs rather than centralize all care in one large institution...
...Revere offers comprehensive help. The Bunker Hill Health Center in Charlestown, the Revere-Chelsea Clinic, and the North Suffolk Mental Health Center in East Boston provide effective, but more limited, mental health services. The North End, the West End and Beacon Hill still lack their own programs. The new Lindemann Center and the Acute Psychiatric Service of the Massachusetts General Hospital are moving to meet these needs, but their efforts have either just begun or are still in the planning stages. As in the Cambridge-Somerville Area, much remains to be done in creating a comprehensive mental health system...
...major obstacle to expansion and improvement of community mental health care is lack of money. For example, the Community Service of the Cambridge Hospital and the inpatient and out-patient programs of the Lindemann Center could really improve with an increase of funds and staff. An entire floor of the Lindemann Center designed for biochemical research remains totally unused because of a money shortage. Furthermore, community mental health workers have found that the more they extend their efforts into the community, the more people they find in need of help. For example, the new alcohol detoxification program at the Cambridge...