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Private Nursing Homes In County Are Overcrowded The Monmouth County Welfare board Tuesday discussed a proposal to utilize a part of the Royal Pines hospital at Pinewald to provide beds for recipients of old age as sistance who are now being cared for in private nursing homes of the county and at the welfare house. . The Ocean county institution is controlled by a corporation of which Dr. E. C. Hazard, Long Branch, is a member. Preliminary talks with Dr. Hazard, according to John L. Montgomery, welfare di rector, indicate that the physician would want to be guaranteed that at least 100 beds would be utilized. The county board has undertaken a survey to determine if it could not meet at least half this number with the rest to come from adjoin ing counties. The primary reason for consid ering this measure, Mr. Montgom ery pointed out, is because private nursing homes in the county are already overcrowded while the welfare home has been operating at capacity or near-capacity pop ulation for many months. The $70 per month per person which is par for the care of these people is raised by funds contributed jointly by the federal, state and county governments on a percent age basis.” , 4 Pinewald 8 operating at the
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Red Bank Register
Red Bank, New Jersey, US
Thu, Apr 13, 1944
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