The West Philadelphia Mental Health Consortium: Administrative Planning in a Multihospital Catchment Area
ROBERT L. LEOPOLD M.D.1
1 Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Director, Division of Community Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 36th and Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104, Director of the West Philadelphia Mental Health Consortium
The West Philadelphia Mental Health Consortium was developed as a partnership of six hospitals which expect to provide mental health services to a large catchment area. With the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School serving as the binding element, the consortium has involved many community agencies in a cooperative planning process, which it is hoped will continue as the mental health program starts operating.
