Title: Jewish Home for the Aged Collection Genre: Papers Dates: 1930-1993 (Predominantly, 1970-1990) Size: 18 linear feet, 22 manuscript boxes, 5 flats ID#: 1697 OCLC: |
On June 10, 1907 members of the Anshe Chesed Shel Emeth, a Jewish burial society, incorporated the Jewish Old Folks Home to provide housing for the homeless and those who could no longer maintain their own homes and wished to live in a facility that observed kashrut, the Jewish dietary laws. A house was purchased at Brush and Winder as the facility, and in 1915 the organization moved to larger quarters at Brush and Edmund, in the heart of the Jewish community.
In 1931 the Jewish Old Folks Home affiliated with the Jewish Welfare Federation and in 1933 the group changed its name to the Jewish Home for the Aged. In 1937 a state-of-the-art facility was built on Petoskey in Detroit with Ira Sonneblick, a nationally known gerontologist, as director. Services expanded to include sophisticated physical and occupational therapy and recreational opportunities. When medical needs increased, the Home developed an infirmary and ambulatory services.
As Detroit’s Jewish population moved northwest, Borman Hall, a modern facility that included married housing, opened in 1968 on Seven Mile Road and Sutherland. In 1971 Prentis Manor, an existing nursing home in Southfield, was acquired. These facilities became full scale nursing homes. Facilities for the well elderly were also needed. The Fleischman Residence, on the grounds of the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield, accommodated this group of people.
Beginning in the mid 1980s, financial and management difficulties plagued the Home. The cost of running a full service nursing facility escalated and problems arose with nursing care. In 1995 the Jewish Home from the Aged relinquished its ability to provide skilled nursing care and sold Borman Hall and Prentis Manor.
The majority of papers in this collection were amassed by Jack Schon during his tenure as a board member and president of the Home. This collection includes correspondence, minutes, reports, agendas, manuals, and scrapbooks covering the creation and operation of the Jewish Home for the Aged facilities, with an emphasis on events that occurred in the 1980s.
Additional material about the Home may be found in the Jewish Federation Collection.
Minute books and an extensive set of photographs from the Home are housed at the Leonard N. Simons Jewish Community Archives at the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
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Series I
1. Abuse manual, 1988-90
2. Accounts receivable, 1988-91
3. Administrative Council; minutes, memos, schedules, lists, 1990-91
4. Admissions committee; corres., reports, 1958-60
5. Admissions information, 1990-92
6. Advanced directives, 1990
7-8. Alien registration; corres., lists, 1951-60, 1961-74
9. Annual meeting minutes, speeches, 1961-63
1-4. Annual meeting minutes, speeches, 1967-71, 1983, 1988-90
5-6. Annual report, 1954-56, 1982
7. Apartment project; corres., forms, reports, 1968-69
8. Auxiliary constitution, 1985-91
9. Board leadership & development memos, 1990-91
10. Board committees; lists, memos, 1990-91
11-12.Board of Directors; lists, policies, corres., minutes, 1972-73
13. Board manual, 1991
14-15.Board meeting agendas, corres., 1975-78
1-6. Board meeting agendas, corres., 1979-83
1-7. Board meeting agendas, corres., 1984-86, 1991-93
8. Board member photos, n.d.
1. Board of Trustees manual, 1982
2. Boys Clubs corres., leases, 1949-67
3-5. Budget & planning; requests, clippings, lists, projections, corres., budgets,
1957-78, 1980-81, 1993
6. Building permits, 1986-90
7. Building plans, 1953
8. Bylaws, constitution, 1930s-1967
1. Capital Needs Committee reports, minutes, corres., 1968-73
2. Charts, 1990
3. Clinical services meeting minutes, 1991-92
4. Committee on Resident Care reports, minutes, 1987-91
5. Comprehensive Aging Service reports, brochures, 1987-88
6. Connecting corridor building plans, 1944-50
7-9. Construction-Petoskey; corres., contracts, 1955-56
1. Contracts; land & general, 1968-69
2. Corporate management minutes, agendas, 1991
3. CPR; clippings, surveys, reports, 1988-89
4. Dedication-LeVine Memorial; corres., invitation, 1955
5. Dedication corres., invitation, 1967
6. Deficiencies; reports, forms, 1981-85
7. Dementia Task Force minutes, report, 1990-91
8. Department of Parks corres., licenses, 1948
9. Designation Committee lists, 1960-61
10. Directory, 1958
11. Education tools; coloring book, quiz, 1989
12. Employee manual, 1990
13. Ernst & Ernst corres., report, 1978
1-4. Executive Committee corres., agendas., minutes, announcements, 1985-91
5. Executive team memos, minutes, agendas, 1988-90
6. Family Forum corres., notices, 1990-91
7-11. Finance Committee corres., memos, reports, proposals, 1982-85, 1988-91
1. Funds; corres., reports, 1958-71
2. Financial reports, 1961-62
3. Financial statements, 1970-72
4. Gala; memos, lists, corres., 1990-91
5. Golden Book inscriptions, n.d.
6. Grievances; forms, corres., 1991
7. Health Department deficiencies; forms, reports, 1992-93
8. Health Department; corres., memos, 1988
1. Health Department; corres., memos, 1989-91
2. History papers, c. 1973-74
3. Holidays; memos, 1985-87
4. Implementation: Committee on Housing for the Elderly corres., memos, 1966-69
5. Investigation; reports, corres., 1990-92
6. Joint Study Committee corres., 1969-71
7. JHA Services, Inc.; articles of incorporation, 1988
8. Keywell & Rosenfeld litigation forms, 1990-91
9. Licensed professional nurses; minutes, 1991-92
10. Management memos, 1991
11. Mason Realty corres., contracts, 1949-62
12. McQuade Realty corres., contracts, 1936-61
13. Michigan Department of Public Health; corres., reports, memos, 1988-90
1. Medical, pharmaceutical, therapeutics; corres., memos, minutes, 1987-91
2. Medical sub-committee minutes, corres., 1959-66
3. Medical records; corres., memos, 1988-91
4. Medical investigation report, 1988-90
5. Memorial room assignment lists, 1961
6. Memorial: Sidney J. Allen; corres., 1960-61
7. Memorial: Aaron Mendelson Trust; corres., list, 1958
8. Midmanagement memo, newsletter, 1990-91
9-10. Minutes: Residents Council, 1984-91
11. New building corres., 1974-90
1-2. New building memos, reports, studies, 1991
3. New Facilities Development Committee; memos, agendas, 1990-91
4. Nominating Committee reports, nominees, 1986-92
5. Nursing corres., reports, 1988-89
6-7. Nutrition program corres., reports, 1973-75
8. Office of Civil Rights corres., 1992
9. Older Americans Month memos, 1988
10. Personnel Practices Guide, 1951
11. Physician’s meeting minutes, 1990-92
12. Plaque designation lists, 1972
13. Pledge lists, 1962-65
14. Prentis Manor summaries, reports, 1989-92
1. Press releases, 1988-92
2. Program & building committee memos, reports, 1990-91
3. Program and MPT committee report, 1991
4. Program Committee minutes, corres., 1991-92
5. Property; Lawton sale deeds, 1939
6. Rehabilitation; reports, corres., 1990-92
7. Religion memo, 1992
8. Renovations; memos, corres., 1987-91
9. Resident Committee minutes, reports, 1986-92
10. Restraints corres., 1991
11. Review; corres., reports, 1984-90
12. Safety; corres., reports, 1985-90
1. Scabies information, 1988-89
2. Scholarships; memos, corres., 1989-91
3. Self-determination; memos, guides, 1990-91
4. Senior management memos, reports, 1992
5. Sinai corres., contract, 1975-90
6. Staff committee lists, 1986
7. Strategic planning clipping, 1988
8. Students memos, corres., 1986-91
9. Survey; Health Department, 1989-90
10. Wetsman bylaws, corres., deeds, 1936-39
11-12.General deeds, reports, memos, brochures, 1930-60
Series II
These are the papers Jack Schon identified as his personal papers, although the entire collection appears to have been generated during his term of service to the Jewish Home for the Aged.
1. Accident & incident reports, 1991-92
2. Action Plan: holistic approach memos, 1992
3. Administrative restructuring memos, 1991
4. Admissions/discharge policies, 1991
5. Alternatives Committee minutes, report, 1992
6. Alzheimer’s Care Unit report, 1991
7. Annual meeting memo, report, 1991-92
8. Auxiliary memo, 1991
9. Beitman, Max R. award speech, 1993
10. Benefactors memos, 1992
11. Borman Hall corres., report, 1991-92
12-18.Budget, 1988-93
1. Budget requests, 1992
2. Butler & Associates; memos, agreement, 1992-3
3. Certificate of Need corres., 1991-92
4. Complaints, 1991-92
5. Consulting services agreement, 1991-92
6. Coopers-Lybrand report, 1991
7. Cultural & Education Benefit Committee report, corres., 1991
8. Donations, bequests, gifts corres., 1992
9. Eldergap corres., 1990
10. Family Forum corres., 1991
11. Family Giving Program corres., 1990-92
12. Federation Endowment Fund reports, 1987-88
13. Finance Committee agendas, minutes, statements, 1991-92
14. Financial statement, 1990
1. Fleischman Pavilion feasibility study, 1991
2. Flesichman Residence Task Force memos, minutes, 1992
3. Geriatric Center reports, minutes, 1991
4. Grant Draw Down memos, 1991
5. Health & Human Services memos, 1992
6. Insurance corres., 1991
7. Jewish Federation Makor Planning Committee corres., brochures, 1990
8. Jewish Federation corres., 1992
9. Leadership / Development corres., memos, minutes, 1990-92
10. LeVine Institute on Aging corres., memos, 1991-92
11. Licensing review corres., reports, 1991-92
12. Maple/Drake facility corres., agreement, 1991
13. Medicaid memo, 1992
14. Medicare summary, 1992
15. Michigan Nonprofit Homes Association corres., memos, 1991
16. Nursing home operation census data, 1991-92
1. Nursing Home Options Committee memos, reports, mission, 1992
2. Operation committee agendas, memos, 1992-93
3. Organizational restructuring action plans, 1992
4. Personal Care Plus corres., 1992
5. Personnel corres., memos, litigation, 1991-92
6. Plan of closure, 1993
7. Prentis Manor report, survey, 1992
8.-10. Program-MPT Committee Nursing Orientation book, agendas, memos, clippings, 1989-92
11. Program to Assure Quality Care plan, 1991-92
12. Project Management Development Committee financial projections, memos, reports, 1991-92
13. Public relations clippings, press releases, 1991-92
1. Quarterly reports, 1991-92
2. Rabbinical involvement in Home corres., 1991
3. Report of Task Force on JHA-Federation Relations, 1991
4. Salome’s Club reports, agendas, corres., 1991
5. Search Committee corres., memos, 1992
6. Service master contract, 1992
7. Sinai Hospital corres., memos, 1991
8.-10. State survey-Borman; corres, memos, 1992
1. Task Force reports, c. 1980s
2. Therapeutic Activities Task Force minutes, 1991
3. Union matters; analysis on Borman, 1992
4. UJF report of Strategic Planning Committee, 1992
5. Waiting List memos, 1991
6. Weekly operations report, 1991
7. Wexner Heritage Village corres., memos, 1991
8-10. Statements, memos, corres., newsletters, resolutions, 1980s-1992
1. Building improvements report, 1947
2. Committee on Housing for the Elderly; proposed apartment project, Baltimore, 1964-66
3. Committee on Housing for the Elderly; Federation, 1966
4. Committee on Housing for the Elderly; Philadelphia, 1964-66
5. Committee on Housing for the Elderly; Pittsburgh, 1961, 1965-66
6. Creative Expressions workshop, 1981
7. Drug preparation notebook, 1936
8. Federation Apartments, Oak Park, MI, 1967, 1970
9. Housing for the Elderly--What Jewish Responsibility, 1964
10. Housing for the Elderly--Some Planning Questions, Federation, 1966
11. Implementation Committee Housing for the Elderly, 1967
12. Residents written material, Joseph Shapiro, 1984
13. Residents written material, creative expressions, 1964, 1966, 1984
14. Services for aging Jewish clients, Cleveland, 1964-66
15. Supplement to Jewish News, JHA, Detroit, 1907-1982
16. Welcome packet, n.d.
1. Petoskey; agreement of sale, 1971
2. Petoskey; Burnett documents, 1972
3.-4. Petoskey; Closing documents, 1972, 1974
5. Petoskey; corres., 1971-76
6. Petoskey; insurance, 19972
7. Petoskey; mortgage, 1974
8. Petoskey; residence pamphlet, n.d.
9. Petoskey; sale documents, 1971
10. Petoskey; title insurance / survey, 1971
Scrapbook, 1948-52
Scrapbook, 1976-80
Scrapbook, 1980-84
Scrapbook, 1983-86
Building specifications, c.1965
Scrapbook, 1953-1964
Scrapbook, 1987-1990
1926 Resolution
Membership card, n.d.
Donation card, n.d.
Literature, n.d.
Newspaper clippings, 1982