NOTE:

3/ Range $1.41

Within each category of facilities the listing
of bibliographical references is arrayed by
the average cost per resident day, ranging from
the lowest to the highest. The scope and date
of the data should be carefully noted.

$8.35.

$10.00; average cost for 22 proprietary nursing homes submitting detailed reports was $4.91.

4/ For 53 proprietary nursing homes reporting data, 32 homes averaged less than $5.00 per day, in 20 homes the cost ranged from $5.00 $10.00 and one home reported a cost of more than $10.00 per day.

5/ Current cost is estimated at $8.00 per day.

6/ Homes were located in States east of the Mississippi and as far south as South Carolina.

7/ Range $3.51 - $6.17.

8/ The cost of care in the nursing unit or infirmary of 15 homes was $9.65.

9/ Homes are located in Jacksonville, Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; Indianapolis, Indiana; Trenton, New Jersey; Utica, New York; and Dallas, Texas.

NURSING HOMES⭑

1.

Beth Abraham Home. Patient Care in Beth Abraham Home (Statistical
Analysis as of December 31, 1958). New York, N.Y., 19 pp.
Processed.

The Beth Abraham Home is a nonsectarian facility for the care of
chronically ill and disabled adults; admission is limited to those
with long-term illnesses. Individuals suffering from tuberculosis,
mental illness, communicable and contagious diseases are not
eligible. This Home has a medical affiliation with Montefiore
Hospital which provides special diagnostic procedures and surgery.
Services available in the Home include medical and nursing care,
social services, rehabilitation and recreation. With the completion
of a new building in the fall of 1958, the bed capacity of the Home
is 531 beds; at the end of 1958, 396 beds were occupied.

It is reported that the average cost of care per patient day was
$9.11 for 1958.

2. Britt, Ferne Hobson and Jacks, Margaret H. Costs of Care of Aged and Infirm Residents in Florida Nursing and Boarding Homes. Public Health Reports 71:735-741, August 1956.

During January-March 1955, the Florida State Department of Public
Welfare and the Florida State Board of Health jointly studied the
costs of care in nursing and boarding homes for the aged and infirm.
The primary purpose of the study was to establish "the cost of a
standard of care that assured minimum adequacy . . . for the use of
agencies and interested communities as a guide to the amount of
public money needed to provide adequate care for recipients of
public assistance and to provide adequate compensation for operators."
Basic figures were obtained from three schedules which were com-
pleted by nursing home operators participating in the study. For
specific levels of care, providing only basic services, the follow-
ing monthly cost figures were developed:

The references included in this Section relate to all types of facilities described in the respective reports as "nursing homes." No attempt was made to classify the facilities as to the level of care being provided.

fied.

In some instances the type of ownership is not identi

The above costs included monthly food costs of $25.50 per patient. For operators spending full time on administrative duties, $15 per month was allowed as a per patient cost; an additional $5 per patient monthly cost was included for wages to the operator who also served in a nursing capacity.

3. Brown, Fred R. Nursing Homes: Public and Private Financing of Care Today. Social Security Bulletin 21:3-8 f., May 1958.

4.

Presents available information on charges and costs of nursing home care and estimates of national expenditures for nursing home care. Discusses current sources of financing such care and various Federal programs for the construction of facilities. Also includes background data on availability of facilities and characteristics of patients in nursing homes.

As the author states, "the cost of furnishing care, especially in proprietary institutions, is hard to determine, partly because the basic information is often not available and also because of the noncomparability of accounting methods."

Cost data from surveys made in Florida and Pennsylvania and studies
by the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, the Board
of Hospitals and Homes of the Methodist Church and the Federal Housing
Administration are cited. (See references 2, 30, 32, 44).

Charitable Research Foundation, Inc. Effective Standards for Institutional Care of the Infirm Aged. Wilmington, Delaware, 1959. 271 pp. This book presents the findings and conclusions of a survey covering institutions of various types offering care for the infirm aged. The survey of available literature and institutions was conducted by the management consulting firm of Booz, Allen and Hamilton at the request of the Charitable Research Foundation. For those who are planning facilities for this group, the report offers information concerning the optimum size, design, and capital cost. The problems of management of such institutions are also discussed.