Help for the people of Louisiana in a field where help is sorely needed is promised by the training and research program that has been adopted for Southeast Louisiana hospital, the new mental institution being built near Mandeville.
The program is unique in that it affiliates Louisiana's two great medical schools—Tulane and Louisiana State university—with the state hospital in a combined undertaking to establish.a model psychiatric institution,
Louisiana has long needed better facilities for treating its mentally ill. It has needed hospital beds and it has needed a training program in the specialized field of psychiatry, A step toward filling all those needs will be made through the hospital and program planned,
A particularly encouraging aspect of the Southeast Louisiana hospital plan is the co-operative approach of the two medical schools toward a joint training and research program. The schools, the hospital and the people of Louisiana all stand to reap benefits.
