Linking Hospital and Community Care For Psychiatric Patients

DR. ARAFEH, a member of the Connecticut Valley Hospital medical staff since 1959, is now its superintendent. MRS. FUMIATTI (B.S., University of Connecticut School of Nursing, Storrs), MISS GREGORY (St. Mary's, Waterbury, Conn.; B.S., University of Bridgeport, Connecticut), and MISS REILLY (St. Raphael's, New Haven, Conn.; B.S., Boston College) are staff members, respectively, of the Visiting Nurse Association of New Britain, the Waterbury Visiting Nurse Association, and the Hamden Public Health and Visiting Nurse Association, all in Connecticut. These nurses served as the first three liaison nurses in the program described in this article. ILSE S. WOLFF (Municipal Hospital School of Nursing, Stuttgart, Germany; Jewish Hospital School of Nursing, Louisville, Ky.; M.A., Columbia University), no stranger to Journal readers, is mental health nursing consultant, Connecticut State Department of Health. houses which are seen in commu-