Assisted Living

Luncheon speaker pays tribute to the South (10/08/09)
Gary Ford, a retired senior staff writer for Southern Living magazine, paid tribute to all things Southern at the 2009 Friends of Argie Cooper Public Library author's luncheon. Ford, who now writes for the R.W. Norton Art Gallery in Shreveport, La., has contributed to the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Southern Places: A Classic Collection of Words and Images, and Southern Living Comfort Food. ...

Southern Living highlights Wartrace to kick off new column (09/27/09)
Southern Living magazine has undergone a facelift, but unlike most gracious Southern ladies, it has no problem telling the world all about it. "We've listened to thousands of our readers and we know that the Southern woman is changing," said Eleanor Griffin, editor in chief of Southern Living and the first female editor in the brand's 43-year history. ...

Utility plan for BCNH will cut costs (04/24/08)
Bedford County Nursing Home presented a plan Tuesday night to the county's Financial Management Committee which will allow it to separate its utility services from the Bedford County Medical Center building. Earlier this year, some county officials, hearing that it would cost up to $50,000 per month to operate the boiler which serves both buildings, were concerned that the nursing home would become a drain on county finances once the hospital moves to a new location this summer. ...

Bredesen pushes long-term care plan (03/28/08)
Gov. Phil Bredesen said that his own mother, last year, was in a position where she was too sick to be home alone and yet not disabled enough to be in a nursing home. Fortunately, she had "a son who knows a little bit about the system," in the governor's words, and he was able to arrange for her needs to be met...

Interest shown in nursing home (03/19/08)
A representative of a company which might be interested in buying Bedford County Nursing Home appeared Tuesday night before Bedford County Board of Commissioners' courthouse and county property committee. County commissioners are deeply divided on the issue of selling the home. ...

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