| Description | Owner and administrator, South-Park Manor Nursing Homes, Corpus Christi and Refugio, Texas. Family background; experiences at Flour Bluff, Nueces County, during hurricane of 1919; employments as bookkeeper for husband’s car dealership, Kingsville, Texas, 1930s; effects of Depression in Kingsville; work with Red Cross during World War II and accounting job for car dealership, New Orleans, 1950s; opening of nursing home, Corpus Christi, 1958; comments on conditions of “rest homes” in Texas, 1950s; acceptance of Oklahoma University Nursing Home Administration fellowship, 1962; loss of leased land for nursing home and difficulty obtaining financing for new home; establishment of one hundredbed home, Corpus Christi; personnel of nursing home; comments on methods of payment by patients; views on nursing home chain operations; addition of sixty-fourbed facility in Refugio, 1964; importance of public relations activities; comments on government regulations and dealings with Health Department; training of personnel; reporting requirements for nursing homes; increase in mental patients at homes; dealings with EEOC; rewards of working in nursing home profession. |
