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VIDEO
Employee Orientation Video
In approximately 1983 the Telecominications Department at Camarillo State Hospital created a 15 minute orientation video for new employees of the hospital. Partially narrated by then Executive Director Clint Rust this video provides a tour of the facility and includes footage shot both outdoors and within many departments. While the source tape had degraded over the years the video is still of fair quality. It remains very informative and unique in that photography of any type, video or still, rarely occurred near patient care areas. In transferring this material to digital formatting it has been broken into four segments of about five minutes each. It is posted on youtube so if there should be any problem with the links on this page the videos can be directly accessed at youtube by entering the words 'camarillo state hospital' in the youtube search field. Below are the links to the videos. The orientation video is provided courtesy of former employee Amelia Turse who was the long time Admissions Suite supervisor
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB9Ob_d9HrU
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SLN-H2ZUoc
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jPoBthIeTM
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNUVuwaegVc
Walkthrough of Unit 28 video
The link below is to a video walkthrough of Unit 28 shot in August of 2006. During the last decades of CSH operation unit 28 was one of the three units in Program 3A, later just '3'. Program 3A housed patients with mental illness diagnosis during the first days/weeks of hospitalization. The other units in this program were units 31 and 33. Unit 31 was an all male unit and 28 and 33 were co-ed. Patients on the admissions units were generally in for relatively short stays. Most would be discharged to either self care, family, or other more structured environments. Following the institution of the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act in 1967 patients placed on legal holds could dispute their hospitalization by filing a Writ of Habeus Corpus. They would shortly be seen by a judge who would determine the validity of the hold. In the 1980s a portion of the 3A program offices in the were actually converted into a courtroom for these legal proceedings.
Link to video walkthrough of unit 28: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuTZ4Dsf6Hc
N'SYNC VIDEO
Exterior portions of this video for the N'SYNC song 'Thinking of You (I Drive Myself Crazy) ' were shot on the grounds at CSH.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgSmlkKs9Vs
Employee name badge 1970s-1980s
Hospital plans which show facility designations at time of closure
Across the street directly south of the RT building was the CSH chapel. At this chapel multi-denominational services were held. In the case of parients unable to leave their units the various Ministers, Rabbi's, Priests, etc. would go to those patients on the units to provide spiritual guidance.
CSH Pharmacy Requisition (1990s)
Below is a postcard from CSH employee on vacation in 1951 to his co-workers on 'Ward N'
LINKS
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES OF INTEREST
Historic Asylums. A very interesting site containing a wealth of information, photographs, and postcards from psychiatric facilities throughout the country http://www.rootsweb.com/~asylums
California Association of Psychiatric Technicians. An excellent organization providing information and support for Psychiatric Technicians in California http://www.psych-health.com/
A website containing information about hundreds of Mental Institutions including Camarillo State Hospital http://www.asylumprojects.org/
Ghost Sightings and the Paranormal Research Group of Southern California
Along with much other interesting content this website offers many excellent photographs of CSH taken ofter the hospital closure.
http://www.fattony99.com/Camirillo_Hospital.html
CONTACT
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Alan Henderson