Abstract
In early 1988 a discharge assessment team surveyed the records of 421 extended-care patients at Washington's Western State Hospital to facilitate planning for patients who were able to move out of the hospital. The group as a whole manifested serious problem behaviors, both current and past. Less than 40 percent of the patients needed continued state hospital care, but most who could be discharged to the community would require intensive residential supervision and support. The authors review linkages between two kinds of residential treatment programming that exists for this population, a network of community residential treatment facilities operated by private providers and community mental health centers and a hospital-based transitional program called the Program for Adaptive Living Skills. Linkages between these programs have proved useful in the residential placement of extended-care patients.
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