1 Comments Posted by PJH

There were four beds to a cubical. This is one of the older ones where the patients needed observation. Most had been changed to rooms with no door and the half walls were then walls. You entered an access hallway which had two doors for privacy with no view of the rooms themselves. Each bed had a large standing locker so that when you were sleeping you couldn't see your neighbor. As for Urine and walking and crying, if someone was upset they usually were taken by staff to the main area to the nurses station or the dayroom where they would have staff one on one with them and be offered something for sleep or to help with the upset.

How do I know? I worked nights. The only units that had problems with having to change the sheets in the morning were two. One was low functioning MR clients who were in a 'residual unit' because they had to many issues [violence] to be in an MR program. They frankly didn't want them. And the Geri unit and if you ever worked a nursing home, you change beds in the middle of the night, morning, afternoon, evening, you name it. It goes with the territory. Was there abuse? Oh yeah but by the 80s it wasn't the 40s style. How do I know? I was one of the ones who reported it to the state.