The aging group is a large component of the society and as such, it is of major import that there are community-based agencies or facilities to cater to their medical and personal needs. Whereas, it is recognized that there are larger nursing facilities available and dispersed in all states, still there are small-scale nursing homes within the immediate local vicinity that can also provide for the needs of the aging citizens. In this paper, we aim to explore the flow and management of the Leland Home in Massachusetts.
Corollary to this, the paper aims to answer the following queries on the institution’s objectives, nature, funding agency, types of services offered, cost of services and the repute enjoyed by the agency. I. Leland’s Working Objective and Short History The Leland Home is a non-profitable senior living residents and/or nursing home for the aged which is located in 21 Newton St. , Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. The Leland Home is a residential facility for the senior citizens which aims to provide quality, secure and safe and reasonably priced residence for senior adults who aspires or necessitates assistance in their daily living.
The nursing facility’s basic premise is to provide a facility setting similar to the friendly ambience of natural homes so that there is a continual maintenance of the dignity and the independence of the elderly citizens. In order to meet its objectives, the nursing facility is a member of multiple local organizations — Massachusetts Aging Services Association , Massachusetts Assisted Living Facilities Association (Mass-ALFA), Aurum Network, and Waltham West Suburban Chamber of Commerce — including a national one, American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging.
The nature of the organization is consistent with the system of management which are consists of voluntary citizens from the local community. Tracing the historical paths of the center would point it primarily to a nursing facility that caters only to women which then would much later evolve in the early 1950s to include the aging opposite sex. The idea of creating a facility that caters to the elderly women came from propositions of Frederick M. Stone (then Pres. Of Waltham Natl. Bank), Rector Thomas H.
Fales, Charles Dix and Daniel French. The facility started in 1891 as the Leland Home For the Aged whose funds came mainly from the estate bequeth of the Mrs. Hannah C. Leland. Leland Home’s periodic table was marked by several renovation and expansion schemes which include the two-storey addition (1938-1939), Luce and Davis House (1952-1955), and the much recent Nichols Solarium (1997). II. The Nature of the Home The Leland Home is a small, discrete non-profit organization which provides services for the elderly citizens.
The managerial system is simple and noticeably uncomplicated by terms like profit or wages. The Board of Directors encompass a variety of community leaders (civic leaders, businessmen, professionals) and other volunteers. The staff consists of 26 workers who have extensive experience in managing health care of the elderly. Their wages are maintained by residential fees. Unlike other institutions who experienced swinging door syndrome for their employees, an approximate 80% of the employees have been in the agency for more than five years.
Additionally, the Home has more than 75 volunteers and is open for community service from the near congregation, academe, families, friends and the locality. Management conversed in standard U. S. English. A recent Spanish-speaking volunteer Juan Carlos Olivo was added to the staff and he teaches the foreign language to the residents during Wednesdays. An annual volunteer appreciation tea is held every April 27 to thank the volunteers for their intense efforts for the agency.