The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, July 23, 1970, Image 19

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- i*V>' * r • -*•..; RECREATION ROOM—The recrear tkm room will feature a large log fire place, shown above at right, a piano, at left, and a color television set, not shown, in addition to comfortable sit ting chairs and card tables. COMPLIMENTS OF Selig Chemical Industries New Orleans Columbus Louisville Puerto Rico Houston Miami Atlanta WRING ROOM—The patients’ din ing room is shown above. Meals will be prepared in the Bailey Memorial Hospital kitchen. mmmm Subscribe To The Clinton Chronicle Los Angeles Dallas For Local News Coverage Alvin Schwab—South Carolina Representative We SaJute Bailey Nursing Home t£i)e Clinton Chronicle Supplement To The Clinton Chronide ' Clinton. S. C., July 23, 1970 1 Photographs By Dan Yarborough NURSES* STATION—Shown at the nurses’ station in Bailey Nursing Home are Mrs- Lida F. Black, R.N., who will be super visor of the nursing home, and Fred Crawford, administrator of Bailey Memorffif* Hospital and Bailey Nursing Home, three corridors are visible from the nurses’ station. All Nursing Home Designed For Comfort The Bailey Nursing Home which will be featured in an open house Sunday is designed for modern, efficient care of long term patients. It is expected that most of the patients will be elderly but age is no criteria. The nursing home is for patients of all ages It is for any patient who would be considered a long-term pat ient (30 days or longer) who isn’t acutely ill but needs skilled nur sing care. Each patient must be under the care of a physician on the staff of Bailey Memorial Hospi tal. Hospital Administrator Fred Crawford, who also will be ad- ■ministrator of the nursing home, said, “This facility sh ould help relieve our patient load at the hospital and at the same time provide improved, more inexpensive care for long term patients. “We really aren’t set up to care for long-term patients at the hospital. Long-term pa tients will receive better care in the nursing home and it also will be a great deal cheaper to be in the nursing home. For ex ample, a private room in the hospital costs $33-$ 34 per day. In the nursing home, a private room is $15 per day.’ The new nursing home is minutely planned from the color of the corridor guard rails to the view from the nurses’ sta tion. The 40-bed facility has 32 rooms ($13 per day). Each pa tient room is equipped with an audio-visual nurse call system, piped-in oxygen, private toilet and lavatory, wardrobe, desk, desk chair, easy chair, all elec tric bed which can be adjusted by the patient, siderails and specially designed mattresses. The mattresses are soft on one side and firmer on the other so that they can be flipped to suit the personal preference of the individual patient. The nursing home has two sit ting areas, a large recreation room equipped with an open (CONTD., PAGE 2) R O 0 RaW ft O ’-^•5 tZrt aA io ro N levies ^ i aA 1 6 «N R OOTTS* ji hoA\ £V- t tiA A A '.| rr • *\T! •L.r • Ot* i y. rV«jK« r. PvV . TOO rv\ 3 <3- VI o o d 1- V VC* W r\ l r\ •o c & 3 P^RVAVICt E M r R l\ \\1l. E FLOOR PLAN—The drawing above is a sketch of the general floor plan of Bailey Nursing Home. It is not drawn to scale. It is designed to show the location of various areas within the nursing home.