New York State Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office Rome Developmental Center Closure Files

The Five-Year Reconfiguration Plan for the Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office (DDSO) called for vacating several buildings, the establishment of twelve 12-bed Small Residential Units (SRUs) on state owned land adjacent to the DDSO, the construction of twelve 12-bed State Operated Intermediate Care Facilities (SOICFs) in the community, and renovation of several existing buildings.

This series contains correspondence, meeting minutes, memoranda, reports and other records pertaining to the closure of the Rome Developmental Center.

B2373-14: This accretion includes correspondence between Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (OMRDD) commissioner Arthur Y. Webb and the last director of Rome Developmental Center, Philip Catchpole, as well as memoranda, personnel vacancy announcements, closure planning documentation (e.g., monthly flag form meetings' files of task forces, such as the Mayor's Consolidated Community Task Force, etc.; and sub-task forces, such as Quality of Life Services, Nutritional Services, etc.); correspondence, memoranda, and planning documents relating to the Closure Study Group, and to the development of a "Core Staffing" proposal; other analysis documents, task lists, progress reports, and OMRDD's "Closure Proposal Document, 1st update" (1993).

This accretion also includes extensive files documenting plans for reconfiguration of staff, clients, logistical operations, and physical facilities.

B2373-19: This accretion includes meeting minutes, memorandums, reports, news articles, and planning documents relating to the closure of the Rome Developmental Center. In addition, the accretion also contains a Historical Committee file consisting of published reference material, files of the Closure Ceremony Advisory Committee (minutes, notes, etc.), fiscal records relating to the ceremony (invitations, catering, etc.), and records pertaining to the creation of the Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office.

B2374Series B2374, Syracuse Developmental Center Closure Files, contains materials pertaining to the Rome closure, which apparently were used by Syracuse personnel as a model for the closure of the Syracuse Developmental Center.

B2373-19: Container list is available at the repository.

Names of patients that may be found in this series are restricted pursuant to Section 33.13, Mental Hygiene Law, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access to restricted records permitted under certain conditions upon application to and approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.