complex with 27 residence buildings draws praise-for instance, trom Sant Bahich. The court‐required concept of de centralizing from the vast 350‐at L. “is now living like a human being with a wonderful person.” Rose Regent said her sister, moved to a foster home last October. Jesus Rios, another plaintiff parent said that “they have tried to improve,” but that his son was learning to manage better since his transfer to a group home last November. Isaacs, one of the original plaintiff parents contended “until there is a separate Department of Mental Retardation, with employees taught from the start that these kids can be helped, improvement in the various institutions will not occur.” The post of medical director, vacant since August, is being discussed with a voluntary hospital physician.

Cannon, whose doctorate is in education, disputed. They complained of interference by nonphysicians in medical mat ters, which Dr. About 30 of the group staged a half‐hour protest Wednesday and then 10 met for two hours with Dr. Willowbrook has 30 full‐time and 25 parttime physicians. “There aren't programs as they claim there are,” she charged. His wife, Genevieve, the current militant president of the Parents Benevolent Association of Willowbrook, said there was up to $400,000 a year in food and clothing thievery. Camen, called the changes mostly “cosmetic.” He said the placement of the wardrobes prevented attendants from seeing some residents harass others. There is still aiscontent over the rate of progress, One parent, James C. New equipment includes 300 wheelchairs, many individually adapted. There is new clothing, and just about everybody wears it instead of the hospital gowns of a couple of years ago-when clothes could not even he kept on some. Regular beds have replaced many old hospital cots. Wardrobes for each resident divide the former 50‐bad wards into groups of sometimes as small as eight. There were still 2,900 residents there when a consent agreement in April 1975 stipulated a reduction to 250, serving only Staten Islanders, in 1981.īuildings are brighter with fresh paint, curtains on windows, rugs, sofas, new chairs. There's more working “one on one” with the 2,500 residcnts-down from 5,341 when the court case began in 1972.

Many of the staff members are young, with more of the hope and idealism of youth.

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