Kramm Nursing Home Inc history

The 1950 legislation also required that participating states establish programs for licensing nursing homes, but it did not specify what the standards or enforcement procedures should be.

By the time of the first national survey of nursing homes in 1954, there were 9,000 homes classified as skilled nursing or personal care homes with skilled nursing facilities; 86 percent were proprietary, 10 percent were voluntary, and 4 percent were public.3

A Bill of Objectives for Older People and a Program for Action in the Field of Aging, by the Council of State Governments, August 1955.

Seeking to expand their mission, in 1956, the Meyers obtained a 10-year lease on the former Yakima County Hospital near the corner of 64th and Washington Avenues and opened the 184-bed West Valley Nursing Home.

As a result of concerns about the quality of care and safety of conditions in nursing homes, the chronic disease program of the Public Health Service began to study state licensing programs in 1957.

The facility was incorporated in 1958 and was named West Valley Nursing Homes, Inc.

In 1959, the business was converted to a non-profit corporation and ownership was transferred to a volunteer Board of Directors.

In 1961, Summitview Manor nursing home was purchased near the corner of 40th and Summitview Avenues.

The program began to work with the states and the industry to develop federal -guidelines for nursing home licensure programs.17 The final product, the Nursing Home Standards Guide, was issued in 1963.

By 1965, 47 states had MAA programs, with a total outlay of $1.3 billion a year.

Amendments made in 1967 to the Medicaid program included those sponsored by Senator Moss authorizing HEW to develop standards and regulations to be applied uniformly by the states.

HEW withdrew proposed ICF regulations in 1969 when states protested.

During 1972 Congress passed the remnants of Nixon's comprehensive welfare reform bill, which still contained many changes in the social security, Medicare, and Medicaid programs.

Since 1974 there has been a series of attempts to revise the federal nursing home certification regulations.27 In 1974 the Office of Nursing Home Affairs began a study of the quality of care in nursing homes.

The HCFA also concluded that revisions of the certification procedures contained in Subpart S of the regulations were necessary (42 CFR Part 405), and began work on them in 1980 (internal HCFA documents).