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Montgomery County Homemaker Home Health Aide Service, Inc. records

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Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Barbara Bates Center for the Study of The History of Nursing [Contact Us]Claire Fagin Hall, 418 Curie Boulevard, Floor 2U, Philadelphia, PA, 19104-4217

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Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
MC 77
Repository:
University of Pennsylvania: Barbara Bates Center for the Study of The History of Nursing
Extent:
3.75 linear feet
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Montgomery County Homemaker Home Health Aide Service, Inc. records, Barbara Bates Center for The Study of The History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
Date:
1967-1990 (inclusive)
Creator:
Montgomery County Homemaker Home Health Aide Service, Inc..
Form:
Administrative records, Photographs, Scrapbooks, and Slides (photographs)
Abstract:
This collection contains the records of the Montgomery County Homemaker Home Health Aide Service, Inc. Materials include board and committee records, administration files, files of programs and activities, and files of other organizations.

The Montgomery County Homemaker Home Health Care Service, Inc. was established in 1967 with a mission to provide personal care and assistance to persons and families residing in the county whose well-being was threatened with disruption of the household by emergencies or illness. The agency provided homemaker-home health aides, trained and supervised, to do light housework, run errands, plan, prepare and serve meals, and care for children, the aged and the disabled. In 1990, the agency merged with and into the VNA Community Services, Inc.

The collection was donated by Marilyn Harris, who is in charge of both the VNA Community Services, Inc. and the Visiting Nurse Association of Eastern Montgomery County. After the Montgomery County Homemaker Home Health Aide Service, Inc. merged into the VNA-Community Service, Inc. in 1990, its records were donated to the Center for the Study of the History of Nursing. The collection consists of Board and committee records, administration files, files of programs and activities, and files of other organizations.

Gift of Marilyn Harris, 1989.

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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania: Barbara Bates Center for the Study of The History of Nursing
Finding Aid Author
Finding aid prepared by Center staff, updated by Bethany Myers
Sponsor
This collection was processed with funds provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission as part of the Nursing History Processing and Cataloging Project.
Access Restrictions

This collection is unrestricted.

Use Restrictions

Copyright restrictions may apply. Please contact the Center with requests for copying and for authorization to publish, quote or reproduce the material.

Collection Inventory

Scope and Contents note

This series contains such formal documents as the agency's annual reports, minutes of its board of directors, and its mission statement. Also included is material of the agency's history.

History, 1981.
Box 1 Folder 1
Mission statement, 1983.
Box 1 Folder 2
Annual Reports, 1969-1989.
Box 1 Folder 3
1984.
Box 1 Folder 4
1985.
Box 1 Folder 5
1987.
Box 1 Folder 6
1988-1989.
Box 1 Folder 7
1989-1990.
Box 1 Folder 8
Lists of Board members, 1973-1990.
Box 1 Folder 9
Attendance sheets, 1988-1990.
Box 1 Folder 10

Scope and Contents note

Included in this series are records of all committees, beginning with the Executive Committee. Most of the records included here are minutes.

Executive Committee, minutes, 1978-1988.
Box 1 Folder 1
Finance Committee, minutes with correspondence, 1976-1988.
Box 1 Folder 2
House and Property Committee, minutes (meeting report), 1981-1987.
Box 1 Folder 3
Membership Committee, minutes, 1975-1987.
Box 1 Folder 4
Nominating Committee, minutes, 1976-1988.
Box 1 Folder 5
Personnel Committee, minutes, 1976-1988.
Box 2 Folder 6
Planning Committee, minutes, 1977-1987.
Box 2 Folder 7
Professional Advisory Committee, minutes, 1977.
Box 2 Folder 8
Public Relations Committee, minutes, 1976-1988.
Box 2 Folder 9
Volunteers Committee, minutes, 1982-1986.
Box 2 Folder 10
Ways and Means Committee, minutes, 1977-1988.
Box 2 Folder 11
List of committee members, 1978-1990.
Box 2 Folder 12

Scope and Contents note

This series consists of files documenting all kinds of operational activities in the agency's administration. There are correspondence, budgets, a manual, a status review, job applications, etc.

Agency status review report to National Council, 1973.
Box 2 Folder 1
Brochures, undated.
Box 2 Folder 2
1967-1980.
Box 2 Folder 3
1981-1990.
Box 2 Folder 4
Century Club membership correspondence, 1982-1990.
Box 2 Folder 5
Oversize Certificates, miscellaneous, 1972-1989.
Box 4
General, 1989-1990.
Box 2 Folder 6
Seeking support for annual report printing, 1990.
Box 2 Folder 7
United Fund allocation, 1990.
Box 2 Folder 8
Cost analysis by Stockton, Bates and company, 1970-1987.
Box 2 Folder 9
Executive Director position applications, 1988.
Box 2 Folder 10
Fee scales, 1969-1989.
Box 2 Folder 11
Job applications from inactive health aide, 1990.
Box 2 Folder 12
Long-term care services: testimony and reference material, 1987-1988.
Box 2 Folder 13
Manual, 1987.
Box 2 Folder 14
Membership certificate, undated.
Box 2 Folder 15
Plan of merger with VNA-Community Services, Inc., 1990.
Box 2 Folder 16
Volunteer service, monthly report, 1986.
Box 2 Folder 17
Portrait photos, two, unidentified and undated.
Box 2 Folder 18

Scope and Contents note

Included in this series are records mainly of two subjects: anniversary celebrations and fund-raising projects.

Anniversary celebrations, 1969-1972.
Box 2 Folder 1
10th anniversary celebration, 1977.
Box 2 Folder 2
15th anniversary celebration, 1982.
Box 3 Folder 3
20th anniversary celebration, 1986.
Box 3 Folder 4
Fund-raising projects.
Supper in the Country, 1972-1980.
Box 3 Folder 5
Fashion show, 1984.
Box 3 Folder 6
Brunch auction, 1985.
Box 3 Folder 7
Lily Langtry show, 1987-1988.
Box 3 Folder 8
Open house, 1989.
Box 3 Folder 9
Board Challenge, correspondence, 1989.
Box 3 Folder 10

Scope and Contents note

Included in this series are files of three national or regional agencies in the field of homemaker home health aide service.

1972-1975.
Box 3 Folder 2
1976-1977.
Box 3 Folder 3
Accreditation guidelines and procedures, 1977.
Box 3 Folder 1
Directory of approved homemaker home health aide services, 1976-1977.
Box 3 Folder 4
Regional meeting, program, 1972.
Box 3 Folder 5
National Homecaring Council, correspondence, 1983-1985.
Box 3 Folder 6
Southeastern Pennsylvania Homemaker Home Health Aide Association, membership certificate, undated.
Box 3 Folder 7

Scope and Contents note

The visual material included in this series documents in great detail all aspects of the agency's homemaker home health aide service, its public relations, and its staff's professional activities. Also included are snapshots of miscellaneous social functions held by the agency. The photographs have been assorted into six folders. There are also 32 reprints (5 x 7) glued to hard card boards that had apparently been prepared for exhibit purposes. According to a list attached, the slides were originally assorted into 120 small groups by subject. There are altogether some 400 frames.

Composites.
Box 5 Folder 1
Meetings and activities.
Box 5 Folder 2
Portraits and group pictures.
Box 5 Folder 3
Public relations.
Box 5 Folder 4
Services.
Box 5 Folder 5
Social functions, miscellaneous.
Box 5 Folder 6
Photographs glued to hard card boards, 32 pieces, mostly 5 x 7 inch.
Box 5
Negatives (in one envelope).
Box 5
Slide presentation in 120 groups, circa 260 frames (in one iron box), 1970-1989.
Box 7
Loose slides in plastic sheets, 2 plastic boxes, and one envelope.
Box 7

Scope and Contents note

The scrapbooks consist of two kinds: clients' letters and newsclippings.

Clients' letters.
Box 6
Scrapbook 1, 1967-1982.
Box 6
Scrapbook 2, 1982-1986.
Box 6
Telecare and civilian volunteers (newsclippings and letters), 1980-1988.
Box 6
Newsclippings.
Box 6
Scrapbook 1, 1967-1972.
Box 6
Scrapbook 2, 1972-1976.
Box 6
Scrapbook 3, 1976-1983.
Box 6
Scrapbook 4, 1983-1989.
Box 6
1975-1989.
Box 6

Scope and Contents note

This series contains three items: a corporate seal press, four commemorative buttons, and a cassette sound-recording tape.

Cassette sound-recording tape.
Box 7
Corporate seal press.
Box 7
Four commemorative buttons.
Box 7
1 iron box of slides (circa 260 frames).
Box 7

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