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Retraining Hospital Staff for Work in a Community Program in Wisconsin

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.4.266

Editor's note: This article describes another aspect of the Training in Community Living program at Mendota Mental Health Institute in Madison, Wisconsin. Hospital & Community Psychiatry plans to publish occasional follow-up reports on this program to shed light on how an innovative treatment program evolves over time. Here the authors describe how stafffrom a mental hospital were retrained to work in the program. After two years of operation the program has had almost no staff turnover.

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