title: South Carolina's village system.
abstract: The authors describe the architectural, design, and mental health treatment concepts underlying the village system, a group of regional inpatient mental health facilities planned in South Carolina. One of the villages is currently under construction and is expected to open early in 1977. In design it resembles a residential community with all the elements of a normal small town or neighborhood.
mesh_terms: D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care; D006126:Group Processes; D006749:Hospital Design and Construction; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D012939:Social Planning; D013022:South Carolina