i’m about to graduate and as my senior project i want to do an essay on the history of what once was “crest nest” in 1903, the nightingale nursing home in the 1940′s, then leader nursing home in the 1970′s, then hcr manorcare corporation in 1998, up until now
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Try here
http://www.aahn.org/nhrtoc.html
http://www.plcmc.org/Locations/mainCarolinaAnnuals.asp
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-936X(194811)48%3A11%3C678%3ATTINSA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L
http://www.aahn.org/pastconf.html (there was a paper on the subject)
I foundthis
Nightingale Nursing Home
This nursing facility was founded in the early 1960′s by Mrs. Bertha Hartsell and Mrs. Florence Furr, neighbors and residents of the Odell School Community. Initially an Intermediate Care Facility, by the 1970′s the facility had upgraded to Skilled Nursing Facility status.
In the late 70′s, sale of the facility resulted in a name change to Brian Center-Odell, although the facility remained privately owned by one of the officers of the Brian Center Corporation. A later split with the corporation resulted in a name change to Odell Nursing Center.
A major expansion in the 1980′s doubled the number of beds in the facility, and was followed by a sale in 1990 to Kentucky-based Cardinal Health Care. In 1995, Cardinal built a new facility near Kannapolis, North Carolina and transferred the nursing services out of the Odell School community.
The buildings currently function as a retirement/assisted living facility.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odell_School,_North_Carolina