History

• General Info
• Timeline
• The Architecture
• The Administrative Structure,
  1890–1979
  • The Organizational Structure,
    1979
  • Former Institutional Affiliates,
    1979
  • Staff–Patient Ratio,
    1891–1972
  • The Asylum in Numbers and Departments,
    1971
  • The Child and Adolescent Unit,
    1967
  • The Moorhouse,
    1968–c.1986
• Staff
• Maps
• Articles

The Organizational Structure, 1979

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

Intermediate Care/Rehabilitation Unit:
Patients not needing chronic care. Prepares 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:
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.
Retrieved from the Archives for the History of Canadian Psychiatry and Mental Health Services, January 30, 2005.