| Repository: | Western Reserve Historical Society |
| Creator: | Montefiore Home |
| Title: | Montefiore Home Records, Series III |
| Dates: | 1942-1991 |
| Extent: | 1.01 linear feet (3 containers and 1 oversize folder) |
| Abstract: | The Montefiore Home is a Jewish nursing home for aged and infirm Jews of Cleveland, Ohio. It was founded in 1882 as the Aged and Infirm Israelites Home, was renamed the Sir Moses Montefiore Kesher Home for Aged and Infirm Israelites in 1884, and, in 1923, Montefiore Home. In the 1940s, Montefiore converted from providing residential care to social and psychological rehabilitation, including day care, social workers, a psychiatric unit, and sheltered workshop. An Auxiliary was formed in 1956-57 to help support Montefiore. In 1991 Montefiore, now a skilled nursing facility, moved to a new $22 million, 240-bed complex in Beachwood, Ohio. The collection consists of annual meeting materials, trustee minutes, building expansion plans, new building materials, publications, reports, and journal reprints. |
| MS Number | MS 4662 |
| Location: | closed stacks |
| Language: | The records are in English |
The Montefiore Home (f. 1882) is a Jewish nursing home located in Beachwood, Ohio. A brief history of this organization from its inception until 1982 is found in Ms 3835 Montefiore Home Records. In 1988, Montefiore Home, then located in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, undertook a $12,200,000 capital campaign to construct a new facility in Beachwood, Ohio. The new building was opened in October 1990 and formally dedicated in November of that year. In addition to long-term care provided to Jewish persons primarily age 65 and over, the new facility offered two new services not previously available under Jewish auspices: short-term care (90 days) for persons recovering from a hospital stay prior to returning to their own homes, and hospice care for terminally ill persons with a prognosis of six months or less.
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The Montefiore Home Records, 1942-1991 and undated, consist primarily of annual meeting materials, trustee minutes, building expansion plans, new building materials, publications, reports, and journal reprints.
This collection is of value to researchers studying the history of institutions for the elderly in general and Jewish institutions for the elderly in particular. This collection augments two previous collections about the history of Montefiore Home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, prior to 1990. In addition, this collection documents the 1990 opening of a new facility in Beachwood, Ohio, that enabled improved and expanded services for members of the greater-Cleveland area Jewish community.
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Related MaterialThe researcher should also consult MS 3835 Montefiore Home Records; MS 4455 Montefiore Home Records, Series II; and MS 4499 Julius and Helen K. Weil Papers; and PG 259 Montefiore Home Photographs.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 4662 Montefiore Home Records, Series III, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Montefiore Home, 1991
Processed by Marjorie R. Stern in 1994
Montefiore Home Records, Series III 1942-1991 undated |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1-5 | Annual meetings, including agendas, correspondence, minutes, reports 1950 1953-1977 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 6-7 | Board of Trustees, minutes 1945-1953 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2 | 8 | Board of Trustees, minutes 1976 1979-1980 1982-1983 | |||||||||
| 2 | 9 | Board of trustees rosters 1955-1978 1984-1985 | |||||||||
| 2 | 9 | Budget analyses for 1882-1963 1984 | |||||||||
| 2 | 10 | Building, expansion, pertaining to addition for sheltered workshop 1952 | |||||||||
| 2 | 10 | Building, expansion, pertaining to addition for hospital unit 1955-1958 | |||||||||
| 2 | 11 | Building, new facility, including capital campaign materials, brochures, fact sheets, newsletters 1988-1991 | |||||||||
| 2 | 11 | Building, new facility dedication materials 1991 | |||||||||
| 2 | 12 | Historical compilations 1947 1955-1968 | |||||||||
| 2 | 12 | Montefiore Home News, resident bulletin 1965-1971 | |||||||||
| 2 | 13 | Publications, miscellaneous 1947 1988-1991 undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 13 | Reports and journal reprints by staff members and others regarding various aspects of Montefiore and the care of the elderly 1945-1959 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 3 | 14 | Reports and journal reprints by staff members and others regarding various aspects of Montefiore and the care of the elderly 1960-1972 1980 undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 15 | Miscellaneous, including newspaper clippings, 1942-1989 and undated; film script, "Where Life Still Means Living", 1964; Code of Regulations, 1973; and 75th and 100th anniversary materials, 1956, 1982 1942-1982 undated | |||||||||
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| 16 | Oversize Folder 1: Miscellaneous, including architectural plans for building expansion, 1955 1952-1982 undated | ||||||||||