"SCAND accepts recommendation for center" from the December 20, 1977 Door County Advocate
SCAND accepts recommendation for center
The Board of Directors of SCAND has accepted the final recommendations of MED-FAC, national consultants on facilities and services for older people and those in need of medical or nursing services, on development of a Living Care Retirement Center in Door County.
They recommend that SCAND plan to build a retirement center in Sister Bay. Its major components would be a 50-unit apartment building and a 60-bed nursing home. They would operate completely separately except for administrative, kitchen, laundry, housekeeping and maintenance services which would serve both.
SCAND has authorized MED-FAC to prepare on its behalf an application to the State for approval of the construction of a nursing home of this capacity. It cannot proceed with plans until this approval is obtained, a matter of several months.
The nursing center would be open to anyone in the community and payments would be made as in any other such facility. Half of the beds would be for skilled and half for intermediate care.
The requirements for the apartments would not be similar to Bay View Terrace. Applicants for Bay View Terrace must have incomes below the poverty line and residents pay rent according to a sliding scale based on their income. Government subsidy is available. The SCAND retirement center would have no government subsidy whatever. Applicants would have to be 65 years of age, or at least one in a couple would have to be a senior citizen.
Residents of the SCAND Retirement Center would not rent but would purchase their apartments, and the cost would depend on the size of the unit. Most of them will have one bedroom (one or two beds) although there will be a few efficiencies and a few two-bedroom units. In addition there will be a monthly charge to cover the cost of administration and service.
The SCAND Retirement Center will provide a wide variety of services. There will be a central dining room where each resident will be required to eat at least one meal per day. This is intended to insure that all residents have at least one nutritious meal daily.
Special diets will be provided and tray service to an apartment will be possible if a resident is temporarily indisposed. Professional nursing staff will be on duty 24 hours a day and a social worker will be available to assist with personal, family or other problems. A physical therapist will be available at least part time.
Apartments will be thoroughly cleaned bi-weekly. Flat laundry will be done weekly and there will be a laundry where residents can do personal laundry if they wish. There will be a variety of other facilities such as a beauty shop, a barber shop, a library, a small drug and sundry shop plus a recreational program.
There will be a complete intercom system throughout. Both heat and air conditioning will be controlled from thermostats in the individual apartments. The cost of all utilities plus telephone will be included in the monthly service charge.
The cost of the apartments can not be finally determined until contracts are let, but it is estimated that, for instance, a one bedroom apartment would cost approximately $23,000 and that initially the monthly service charge would be $324 for one and $400 for two occupants.
The purchaser would maintain an owner's equity in the apartment on a declining basis for five years. He would be entitled to live in it for as long as he wished, but if he vacated the unit for any reason it would revert to the Center and be available for resale.
For instance, if he became chronically ill and required continuous nursing care he would be moved to the nursing center and his apartment would be given up. If he were not chronically ill and was expected to recover sufficiently to care for himself, his apartment would be held for him. Each apartment resident would be allowed 15 days of free nursing care per year (non-accumulative).
In effect the Center will offer life-time care for its residents unless they become seriously ill beyond the ability of the nursing center to provide care. In that instance the Center would assist him in making other arrangements.
This project will cost in the neighborhood of $3,000,000. Financing can be arranged if an adequate down payment can be made. This will be assembled through the pre-sale of apartments as had been done at other such Centers of this kind. However, SCAND needs additional "seed" money to get the project started and hopes that an eventual community campaign will raise at least $60,000 toward initial expenses.
SCAND must pay off obligations incurred in purchasing the site. Payments must be made for the services of consultants of various kinds. An attractive brochure must be prepared, and a model apartment constructed so that people can actually sense the size and attractiveness of the units.
Membership in SCAND to date has been only $1.00 per year and SCAND will be pleased to have anyone send his membership fee to SCAND, Inc., Fish Creek, 54212, but anyone who would like to make a further, substantial contribution is heartily encouraged to do so.
President of SCAND is John Harding, Ellison Bay; Robert Berns, Sister Bay, vice-president; George Erickson, Fish Creek, secretary; and Wayne Williams, Baileys Harbor, treasurer.
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Courtesy of the Door County Library Newspaper Archive
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