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t The Psychiatrie systemn of care in tl wlth agreai on out-Pa .Ùugmented f;vices. Ultir year old fac tors would M hospital bec smaller, centre for tt of patients, more atti before tlils phasia cam pletely ra must be growth te based supp -As the sti tors 'Of L !Psychiatrie work to deve inodel -for ~care, an lni step la iner munlty awau kinda of ct are takteg *that was the a speclal if :mation day the hospital1 "We've developing citlng- nev programs h laat couple0 ;,we feel lt's that the ,develop a se in some -of that are gotn 'uald cllnlci *and' Ps,ý èhMef Dr. Wasylenkl. 'èWe're -de foel i Whitby 1 Whltby psychatric hospitala ,c Hospital la should be run now in the ie move to a 18'. le-centrallzed A consultant's report fpsychatric comînlaaloned by Whlt- te province by Psych's communlty ter emphasls advlsory board several atient care years ago recommen- 1 by corn- ded that the facility be iupport ser- rebuilt from the ground nately, the 65 up as a much arnaller ellty's direc- reglonal centre for the lilce to aee the treatment of patients come a much Who require more specialized speclal attention not the treatment available through Swho require cornmunlty baaed ser- ention but vices. However, before shftin em- that can be done the ýn be com- report states that those alized there services must be ex- a marked panded and another 100 community psychlatric beds must îrt services. be establlshed In the aff and direc- nine community the Whtby hospitals operating in 1 Hospital Whltby Psych's catch- relop this new ment area. psychatrie At present, those portant finit communlty services are reased com- aadly lacklng. renes of the "lThere just aren't hanges that eriough communlty ser- tplace and vices. There ian't ie purpose of enough housing, nedia 'Infor- sheltered workshops, ystaged at communlty mental i ast Friday. *health workers... been There's just flot enough some ex- of any of these services ,w clinical In the communities we here in the serve," sald Bfil of years and Bergstrom, a head nur- *s Important se in Whltby Psych's community psychatric rehabilita- ense of pride tion unit. th thte s One of ten reglonal ng on here, psychatric hospitals In ua dfetor the province, the Whttby ychlatrlst-te- facillty is the largest * Donald servlng a population of some two million, said leveloplng a Dr. Wasylenki. The for how hosptal's ýcatchment P sych area extenda from Yonge'St. te Toronto to the eastern edge of Durham and north to In- clude Victoria County. - Hlstorlcally, psychia- tric care in the province waa dispensed through a two tier system whlch generaliy saw the mid- dMe and upper classes treated in general hospitals whlle the poor and those wlth severe psychiatric problema were relegated to regional psychiatric hospitals such as Whlt- by's. This, said Dr. Wasylenki, la finally changing. The new trend is to handie admissions at the nine general hoopitals where acute cases can be treated and released while those requlring . more speclallzed and chronlc care are* referred to Whltby Psych. "Our feeling la that we should be providteg hlghly speciallzed ser- vices for small groupa who need more atten- tion than they would receive In a group home or out-patientasettteg. 50 what we're trylng to do la carefully identify what our patients' needs are... «'If a patient la not receiving the klnd of at- tention they need in the general hospitals then they are admltted here. We want to get away from the old two tier system," aaid Dr. Wasylenki. Whlle the staff and directors of Whitby The Whltby Psychiatric Hospital hosted a establlah a new de-centralized aystem of speclal information day for the local media psychatrie care in the province. He laseeSn last Friday and psychlatrist-te-chlef Dr. here wlth hospital administrator Dianne Donald Waaylenki- announced that the MacFarlane. reglonal mental facilitylIsleadlng the move to FreePress Staff Photo Sehool users to pay much more By JAN~ DOD)GE In a one-year study to institute a amail user With the new policy, Free Press Staff the Durham Board of fee to increase revenue, however, only Community groupa Education has "It won't cover the designated groupa willl wantlng to hold estimated the costa of cost," she saad, "but it continue to have this meetings, or fund- keeping achools open will sllow the board to privilege. Besidea ralaing events in Whltby and makteg thena continue to offer the Scouts and Guides, public achools willI pay a usable to the public at service." programa run by the. lot more thls year. $490,00. The previous policy Y.M.C.A. and the Scouts and Guides Noreen Bodnar, co- has meant non profit Y.W.C.A., as well as any won't have to pay, but, ordinator for the com- groupa could use achool recreation programa come September moat munitY use Of achoola, facilities free of charge run by the municipality other groupa will. said the board decided from Monday to Friday. SEE PAGE 9 WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY JULY 23, 1986, PAGE 3 assu-mingnew.rote Psychiatrie Hospital psychiatrie services Wasylenkl saad the vlng as a back-up to the await the neceasary ex- whlch wlll facilitate the hospital wlll continue to reglr's general pansion and creation of restructurlng of the evolve into a hlghly hospitala and com- community based regional hospital, Dr. speclalized facllity ser- munity based clinica.