gr00085.xml St. Peter State Hospital: An Inventory of Its Subject Files and Miscellaneous Records at the Minnesota Historical Society Minnesota Historical Society
St. Paul, MN.

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 Finding aid encoded by Cheri Thies, July 2010. Finding aid written in English. OVERVIEW Minnesota Historical Society St. Peter State Hospital. Subject files and miscellaneous records. 1855-2010. Materials in English. Cemetery records (1896-1985), daily ward record (1891-1892), land records (1855-1925), nurse employment record books (1880s-1950s), doctors time book (1964-1975), outdated procedures manual sections (circa 1895-2010), and subject files. Topics covered in the latter include chaplaincy, Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals, medical staff, Minnesota Security Hospital, nursing policies, the 125th anniversary celebration, photographs of dormitory and building interiors, Recruitment Assessment Committee, St. Peter weather statistics, strategic planning, and visitors. 7.55 cubic feet (7 boxes and 2 partial boxes). See Detailed Description for shelf locations. CATALOG HEADINGS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics: Chaplains, Hospitals -- Minnesota. Employee handbooks. Land titles -- Registration and transfer -- Minnesota -- Nicollet County. Medicine -- Minnesota. Mentally ill -- Minnesota. People with mental disabilities -- Institutional care -- Minnesota. People with mental disabilities -- Mortality -- Minnesota. Physicians -- Minnesota. Psychiatric hospital care -- Minnesota -- Statistics. Psychiatric hospital patients -- Minnesota -- Statistics. Psychiatric hospitals -- Minnesota -- Photographs. Psychiatric hospitals -- Minnesota -- Accreditation. Psychiatric hospitals -- Minnesota -- Administration. Psychiatric hospitals -- Minnesota -- Employees. Psychiatric hospitals -- Minnesota -- Employee rules. Psychiatric hospitals -- Minnesota -- Nurses. Psychiatric nurses -- Minnesota. Psychiatric nursing -- Minnesota. State hospitals -- Minnesota -- Photographs. State hospitals -- Minnesota -- Accreditation. State hospitals -- Minnesota -- Nurses. State hospitals -- Minnesota -- Officials and employees. State hospitals -- Minnesota -- Visits and correspondence with inmates. Vital statistics -- Minnesota. Organizations: Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals. St. Peter State Hospital -- Photographs. St. Peter State Hospital -- Anniversaries, etc. St. Peter State Hospital -- Buildings and structures, etc. -- Photographs. St. Peter State Hospital -- Personnel records. Places: Saint Peter (Minn.) -- Climate -- Statistics. Document Types: Photographs. Deeds -- Minnesota -- Nicollet County. Leases -- Minnesota -- Nicollet County. Death records -- Minnesota. Burial records -- Minnesota. Personnel records. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. St. Peter State Hospital. Subject Files and Miscellaneous Records. Minnesota Historical Society.

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 Accession Information:

Accession number(s): 200; 387; 988-191; 993-27; 998-120; 2007-16; 2007-30; 2012-51

 Processing Information:

Catalog ID number: 007158027

 DETAILED DESCRIPTION 102.E.2.1B Active treatment, 1994-1995. Campus Executive Committee, Review of, 1987. Cemetery records, 1896-1985.

Photocopies of cemetery records compiled in 1988 by a staff member of the hospital. Consists of a 1925 memo concerning notes on the hospital cemetery (no names given), a list of those buried in the hospital cemetery (1896-1901), and a chronological list of burials, compiled from extant death record books (1909-1966, 1985).

Chaplaincy Department, 1980-1993. Collaboration/Consolidation, 1994. Community Services, 1990-1994. Constitution of the Minnesota State Hospitals for the Mentally Ill and Mentally Retarded, 1967. 113.J.2.4-2 Daily ward records, November 1891-October 1892. 1 volume.

Statistical record of patients, activities, and conditions in each ward (male and female). Records numbers of patients; numbers of beds; numbers of patients sick in bed, under medical treatment, on extra diet, refusing food, fed without force, fed medicinally, noisy by day, noisy by night, noisy by day and night, with soiled clothes, or soiled beds; numbers of patients received on ward, removed from ward, not out of ward; numbers of patients in restraint (seclusion, restraints, covered beds); and numbers of patients engaged in various recreations and occupations at the hospital.

 102.E.2.1B Diversity, 1994-1996. Doctors order book, November 18, 1942–April 24, 1949. 1 volume. Doctors time book, 1964-June 14, 1975. 1 volume. Employees list, September 1, 1966. Employee turnover, FY 1992 report. Executive Order 85-17 Renaming State Hospitals (Original), December 13, 1985. Flood, Spring 1969. Gluek Memorial Cabin, 1972-1974. Impact on surrounding area, February 1994. Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals: Correspondence, 1958-1995. 6 folders. 102.E.2.2F Correspondence, 1995-1996. 1 folder. Mock survey, 1995. Land records, 1855-1925.

Primarily deeds, leases, and a few items of correspondence relating to land acquisition and disposition; arranged chronologically.

 Legislative Building Commission, brochures, February 1966, November 1967. Legislative Interim Commission to Study State Building Needs, 1956. Medical reports on patients, 1866-1876. Medical Staff-Services, 1989-1994. Medical Staff Bylaws, 1991, 1995. 2 folders. Medical Staff Service Plan, May 1995. Mental Health Division, 1993-1994. Minnesota Security Hospital: New building, 1978-1980. Dedication, December 11, 1981. Monthly record, Second North Hall, November 1891. 109.H.15.4F Nurse employment record books,[188-]-[195-]. 2 volumes.

Two volumes, one for female nurses and one for male nurses, including names, date arrived, date left or resigned, and remarks regarding job performance. Although the data begins in the 1880s, the compilation was not begun until August 1906.

 102.E.2.2F Nursing Policies: A-Z, 1989. 2 folders. Infection control, 1989. 2 folders. Written nursing plan for service provided, 1989. 125th Anniversary: Planning, 1989-1990. 2 folders. Time capsule, 1992. Organization review/reorganization, 1990s. Performance Improvement Plan, June 1995. Photographs and scrapbook items, 1954-1987.

Includes dormitory and building interiors photographs and news clippings.

102.E.2.3B Procedures, campus-wide manual, circa 1895-2010:

Outdated procedures arranged by procedure number; not all numbers are present.

Nos. 1000-41000. 102.G.2.1BNos. 41100-51625. 102.G.2.2FNos. 51650-64000. 102.G.2.3BNos. 70050-81900. 102.G.2.4FNos. 82000-91200. 102.E.2.2F Psychiatry Department, general information, 1992-1995. Recruitment Assessment Committee: Visit to St. Peter RTC, June 1-3, 1987. 2 folders. Forensic Division, 1987-1988. Minnesota Security Hospital, December 15, 1987. 102.E.2.3B St. Peter, Minnesota, weather statistics, 1893-1989. Security, 1987-1994. Senior class notes, Dorothy Sieburg, St. Peter Training School, 1914-1915. Strategic planning, 1994-1997. 3 folders. Surplus land and property, 1979-1986. Treatment Program Task Force, 1977-1978. 113.J.2.4-2 Visitors record, May 13, 1899–December 23, 1910. 1 volume.

Contains date, name of visitor, residence of visitor, relation to patient, and name of patient.

 102.E.2.3B Ward C-3, Time-off log book, 1956-1962.