Nursing Homes

Caring helpers: Tennessee Cares for Kids steps in to supply items for children in foster care (02/10/12)
A Maury County non-profit ministry is expanding to Bedford County this year. Tennessee Cares for Kids got its start a year ago in Columbia, and provides immediate clothing, personal and school supply needs of children entering foster care. Then known as Maury County Cares for Kids, the group had long-range plans in place to grow the ministry into other counties over a period of time...

Judgment against Americare overturned (01/20/12)
The Tennessee Court of Appeals has overturned a $5 million judgment against the parent company of a local assisted living facility in a wrongful death suit. In April 2010, a Bedford County jury returned a verdict of more than $5.4 million against Americare Systems Inc, and Shelbyville Residential LLC, which does business as Celebration Way, and two nurses -- Dottie Hunt and Mary Ann Steelman...

Couple puts beliefs into practice (12/14/11)
In his role as youth leader, David Brown reminds teenagers that God's greatest commandments may be distilled simply: Love Him. Love others. "The best way to show God how much we love Him is to love His people. We're commanded to take care of one another."...

Temporary homes offer children safety, security (12/13/11)
A generation that remembers still speaks of a time when a hungry man could knock at the door of a farmhouse and ask to be fed. A glass of milk, a biscuit from that morning's breakfast. It was the Great Depression. Times were tough, but families took care of their own, taking in cousins or nieces and nephews temporarily when their parents couldn't provide for them...

County to sell nursing home (11/09/11)
Bedford County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday night to sell the county-owned nursing home on Union Street, along with the vacant adjoining building that once housed Bedford County Medical Center, to Care Centers Management Consulting, the Johnson City-based firm that currently leases and operates the nursing home...

Only 1 bidder for nursing home (10/26/11)
Bedford County received only one bid for its nursing home and former hospital facility on Union Street -- from the company which is currently leasing the nursing home, Johnson City-based Care Centers Management Consultants. CCMC has bid $3,040,520, less $240,520 it claims the county owes it for improvements which had to be made to bring the building in compliance with state law, for a net cash bid of $2.8 million...

New leader joins Christian Care Center (09/02/11)
Christian Care Center welcomed new administrator Mike Rabuka this week. A registered nursing home administrator, he recently transferred to the area from Clarksville. Rabuka will be responsible for the overall operations of the building, management of staff, the center's budget and day-to-day operations...

County moves closer to sale of nursing home (07/13/11)
Bedford County Board of Commissioners voted by a 15-1-1 margin Tuesday night to issue a request for proposals for the sale of the county's nursing home license and facility. That doesn't guarantee that the facility will be sold; the county could decide to reject all bids...

Bids may be sought for nursing home (06/22/11)
Bedford County Board of Commissioners' courthouse and county property committee has recommended that the county seek bids from potential buyers of the county-owned nursing home and the adjoining building which used to house Bedford County Medical Center...

County may sue nursing home (06/03/11)
Bedford County Financial Management Committee recommended this week that the county consider a lawsuit against Christian Care Center of Bedford County to recoup $107,000 in utility bills the county claims it is owed, and that the county consider forcing the nursing home to take utility service under its own name...

Nursing facility attracts interest (01/20/11)
After hinting last month that it might be interested in selling the county-owned nursing home facility, the county has begun receiving inquiries, according to discussion at Tuesday night's meeting of Bedford County Board of Commissioners' courthouse and county property committee...

County may look at sale of nursing home (12/29/10)
Bedford County Financial Management Committee agreed Tuesday evening that a closer look needs to be taken at the future of the county's nursing home facility on Union Street. Commissioner J.D. "Bo" Wilson said that even though there are 2 1/2 years left on the county's lease of the facility to Johnson City-based Care Centers Management Group, the county should already be looking at its options for the future, including sale of the facility...

Holiday outreach to nursing home patients (12/23/10)
There is something about the holidays Caine Warren, 10, looks forward to more than gifts under the Christmas tree. Each year, Caine and his grandmother Christy Warren visit area nursing homes, presenting residents with cuddlies and toiletries. "Christies Cuddlies for Clera" has been going on for five years now...

Commission: Care center costs county (12/22/10)
When the county leased Bedford County Nursing Home to Johnson City-based Care Centers Management Group in August 2009, commissioners thought they were saving the taxpayers from continuing losses and expenses at the facility. But the county, as landlord, has had to continue to make repairs to the building, including a new roof and a new electric generator, and the cost of those has far exceeded the rent the county receives from Care Centers Management Group, according to discussion at Tuesday night's meeting of Bedford County Board of Commissioners' courthouse and county property committee.. ...

Gifts, songs and love from you (12/09/10)
Gift gathering for the county's nursing home residents is going well, but help is still needed from the public for delivery and perhaps from those who can carry a tune. The fifth annual Linda Hayes Nursing Home Gift Drive, which makes sure that the county's elderly receive gifts during the holidays, is well underway, and organizer Lindsey Sudberry said the gift part "is going great."...

Nursing home gift drive opens (11/26/10)
Grassroots organizers are once again gearing up to make sure nursing home residents are not forgotten this Christmas and are asking for the public's help. Lindsey Sudberry and her mother, Lorrie Gunn, are spearheading the fifth annual Linda Hayes Nursing Home Gift Drive, which makes sure that the county's elderly receives gifts during the holidays...

Longtime commissioner Tune dies (06/01/10)
Long-time county commission member Joyce Tune died Monday at Glen Oaks Convalescent Center. Tune was appointed to succeed her husband, George Tune, in a seventh district seat on the commission following George Tune's death in 1987, and voters continued to re-elect her to the seat. She had already filed to run for re-election this year in the August general election...

Nursing home repairs backed by commission (05/13/10)
Bedford County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday night to approve a capital outlay note of up to $450,000 to pay for roof repairs to the county-owned building which houses Christian Care Center of Bedford County. The county is working on an arrangement with Johnson City-based Care Centers Management Group, which leases the nursing home from the county, to repay the note at no cost to the taxpayers, according to County Mayor Eugene Ray. ...

Nursing home in need of upgrades -- report (03/19/10)
Bedford County Board of Commissioners' courthouse and county property committee heard a report Tuesday night about $790,000 or more in capital expenses said to be needed at Christian Care Center of Bedford County, the former Bedford County Nursing Home...

106 and counting: Ora Charles takes it one day at a time (03/17/10)
Ora Charles wanted to hear "One Day At A Time" for her birthday, and so a staffer at Glen Oaks Convalescent Center rushed to a nearby computer to look up the lyrics on the Internet and print out copies so that the crowd could sing along. It was a small gesture, but a measure of how special Tuesday was; after all, your 106th birthday doesn't come along every day...

Nursing home holiday organizer overcomes obstacles (12/24/09)
Four years into her annual Christmas project, Christy Warren didn't think she'd be able to follow through this year. Her mother-in-law, to whom she was extremely close, passed away just before she was about to start the effort, which entails giving hundreds of gifts to local nursing home residents...

Audit: Nursing home funds were stolen (12/23/09)
The last full-year audit of Bedford County Nursing Home before it was leased to an outside operator found serious deficiencies in financial control which allowed an employee to issue $1,100 in unauthorized payroll checks, according to discussion at Tuesday night's meeting of Bedford County Financial Management Committee...

Gift drive nears end (12/15/09)
Packaging and delivery times for this year's Linda Hayes Nursing Home Gift Drive have been announced and there is still a little time left to get those presents in. The goal of the fourth annual drive is to make sure that all 310 nursing home residents in Bedford County are not forgotten during the Christmas season...

Gift drive benefits nursing home residents (12/02/09)
With a goal to deliver gifts to all 310 nursing home residents in Bedford County, organizers are again asking for help this year to make this happen again. Lindsey Sudberry and her mother Lorrie Dunn are spearheading the fourth annual Linda Hayes Nursing Home Gift Drive that makes sure that the county's elderly are not forgotten during the Christmas season...

Committee approves liability insurance plan (10/22/09)
Bedford County Financial Management Committee, at a special called meeting Tuesday night, approved purchase of five years of trailing liability coverage for the former Bedford County Nursing Home, acting on recommendation from their insurance agent, Joe Hunt of H.B. Cowan Insurance, and attorney John T. Bobo...

Ritch sentencing date set for January (09/23/09)
Jan. 4 is the date when real estate developer Roger Ritch will learn what his punishment will be after he pleaded guilty in federal court in Chattanooga Monday to his involvement in a multi-million dollar mortgage fraud scheme. Ritch along with William McMahan, Jonathan Henderson and Carrie Snow, was charged in May with bank fraud and money laundering in a scheme involving hundreds of homes in Shelbyville...

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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