Box 7, Folder 19, Document 28

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HIGHVIEW NURSING HOME
2800 Springdale Road §. W.
Atlanta, Georgia 30315

ADMISSION POLICIES:

Highview is intended to be a nursing home for infirm aged men and women
of limited means.

Infirm is intended to mean that the person should have immediately avail~
able nursing care and medical attention of the degree usually associated
with a nursing home, but not to the degree which normally requires the
servite of a general hospital or a chronic-disease hospital; and a degree
of infirmity which requires more than simple custodial care.

Aged is intended to mean a person who is in the sixtieth year of life or
older. This age shall not be considered a rule absolute if the capacity of
the home is not filled by persons of this minimum age.

Limited Meang is intended to mean persons whe do not have available (owned
in their own right, or through kin who will accept financial responsibility)
financial resources sufficient to pay for their care in the usual privately
operated nursing home or home for the aged. A specific dollar-value on
resources is intentionally omitted.

CLASSIFICATION:

Patients’ shall be considered under three classifications- -

Class A shall be those patients who are entirely dependent upon public or
private agencies or charities for their care and livelihood.

Class B shall be those patients who have some financial resources (self
owned ot kin), but who require assistance from public or private agencies
for their care and livelihood.

Class € shall be those patients who have financial resources (self owned
or from kin) sufficient to pay cost of care and livelihood at this home,
but not sufficient to purchase care and livelihood at the usual privately
operated nursing home.

Priority: First consideration will be given to Class A patients. It is in
the public interest that services also be extended to the other two groups,
for it is wise to encourage persons to rely on their own resources. Under
this premise, next priority will be given to Class B patients. But it is
not intended to exclude all Class € patients in the exercise of the above
two preferences.

Fxclusions: This home is not prepared to care for persons with acute
psychiatric complaints, or with infectious or contagious diseases, or with
tuberculosis. Such patients will not be knowingly admitted; and if the
condition develops or becomes known after admission, it is expected that


the patient will be promptly removed. The Medical Director for the

Administrator, if the Medical Director cannot readily act) shall have
full power to judge and to act upon such matters.

MEDICAL REPORT: Prior to admission, a written medical report and

opinion, by a licensed physician who is familier with and who has
personally examined the applicant, will be required. The Administrator
or Medical Director may prescribe a form for such report, and may con~.
duct such further inguiry as they deem justified. The requirements as
to medical examination and report are for the protection of all patients,
including the applicant.

FINANCIAL REPORTs Information available through the Department of Public
Welfare of Fulton and DeKalb Counties will be sought. Written commit-
ment to meet charges will be expected of patients or their kin or other
sponsors wherever appropriate. Regulations of the Georgia Department

of Family and Children Services will be followed on Class A and Class

B patients.

RESEDENCE: Admission will be limited to residents of Fulton and DeKalb
Counties, for Class A and Class B patients; and to bona-fide dependents
of residents of these two Counties, for Class C patients.

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