Admission Wards: patients are assessed to determine treatment needs, and referred to specialized unit.  

Intermediate Care/Rehabilitation Unit: patients not needing chronic care. Prepare patients for adjustment to community life.

Chronic Care Unit: for patients needing long-term hospital-based treatment and therapy.  

Alcohol Unit: a twenty-eight day program involving primary diagnosis of alcoholism, individual, group and family therapy.  

Self-Care Unit: for patients well enough to care for themselves, but needing hospital to prevent relapse.  

Social Orientation Unit: for the mentally handicapped who suffer from emotional disturbance.  

Special Observation Unit: a security ward for patients requiring close supervision, observation and assessment. Patients on Lt. Governor's warrant, violent behaviour, suicidal.  

Psychogeriatrics Unit: for senior citizens who suffer from progressive forms of senility, difficult to care for in nursing homes.  

Occupational Therapy: in-patient program for training various craft activities designed to assist patients to concentrate and cope with their problems.

Vocational and Recreational Therapy: housed in the industrial trades building for in-patients and out-patients. Involves patients in limit production activities under contract with companies.  

D.A.R.E: is an expanded form of vocational therapy off campus, mainly for out-patients. Involves patients and out-patients.

Out-Patient and Community Services: hospital follow-up activity for discharged patients living in community.  

Reference:

Ontario Public Service Employees Union, The Closing of Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital: the Case for Reconsideration. Toronto, 1979