Interview with Velma Mynier concerning her experiences as owner and administrator of South Park Manor Nursing Homes in Corpus Christi and Refugio, Texas. Mynier discusses her family background, her experiences at Flour Bluff, Nueces County, during the hurricane of 1919, her employment as a bookkeeper for her husband's car dealership in Kingsville, Texas in the 1930s, the effects of the Depression in Kingsville, her work with the Red Cross during World War II, and her accounting job for a car dealership in New Orleans in the 1950s. She also talks about opening a nursing home in Corpus Christi in 1958, the conditions of "rest homes" in Texas in the 1950s, her acceptance of a University of Oklahoma nursing home administration fellowship in 1962, the loss of leased land for a nursing home and her difficulty obtaining financing for a new home, the establishment of a one hundred-bed home in Corpus Christi, the personnel of the nursing home, and the methods of payment by patients. Mynier shares her shares on nursing home chain operations, the addition of a sixty-four-bed facility in Refugio in 1964, the importance of public relations activities, government regulations and dealing with the Health Department, training personnel, the reporting requirements for nursing homes, as well as the increase in mental patients at homes, dealings with the EEOC, and the rewards of working in the nursing home profession.
