New York State Office of Mental Health Professional Papers of Annette R. Brown

Annette R. Brown was an employee of the Office of Mental Health (OMH) from 1956-1980. She served as Director of Education at Rockland State Hospital from 1956-1968, and then as Associate Program Analyst at the central office of OMH from 1968-1980. Additionally, she worked on contract for OMH's Office of Statistical and Clinical Information Systems intermittently from 1981-1990, primarily on the development of the Survey of Patient Characteristics.

Published reports and guidelines for use of the Survey of Patient Characteristics are available at the New York State Library.

These records document all three parts of Annette Brown's career at the Office of Mental Health. Rockland State Hospital records include a staff telephone directory, newsletter, photographs, and program and correspondence related to a teacher's conference. Central office records include documentation pertaining to the life and career of Alan Miller (Commissioner of Mental Hygiene from 1966-1974), Stephen DuBois (director of Gowanda Psychiatric Center, 1977-1985), and Lee Hanes (director of the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center, 1970-1995), as well as Philip Wexler (Assistant Commissioner for Staff Development Training, 1966-1980) and Abbott Weinstein (Director of Statistical Analysis, 1966-1984). They also include speeches and other materials pertaining to Brown's work on adolescent programs.

Records pertaining to the Survey of Patient Characteristics (published in 1985) include staff memoranda and meeting notes, notebooks containing lists of OMH regions, facilities, and units, and handwritten worksheets for both the collection and distribution processes to obtain information for the survey. There are also coded datasheets with survey results.

14230Series 14230, Survey of patient characteristics data files, holds further records pertaining to the Survey of Patient Characteristics.

Preliminary folder list is available at the repository.

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.