title: The veterans administration and community mental health: New approaches in psychiatric rehabilitation.
abstract: The large government mental institution must become increasingly integrated with local community mental health programs. The Veterans Administration Hospital, Palo Alto, California, provides an example of how one such institution involves its programs with the community. The traditional hospital-based sheltered workshop, when operated as a nonprofit corporation, is especially well suited to the employment of mental patients in workshop-owned enterprises outside the hospital walls. The flexibility of the program is illustrated with case histories. Advantages to the client, the institution, and the community are discussed.
authors.affiliation: , 1643 Edgewood Drive, Palo Alto, Calif..
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: McDonough