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Bangor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, a 60-bed nursing home that has provided various services in the area for nearly 200 years, is being sold to a Massachusetts health care system.
Covenant Health, based in Tewksbury, Mass., has agreed to acquire the Bangor health care provider for an undisclosed price, according to a news release Tuesday. The deal requires approval from the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, but could close in the next two or three months.
Bangor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is the area’s only nonprofit nursing home and the only independent one in Penobscot County, according to the center’s website. Located on the University of Maine at Augusta’s Bangor campus, the nursing and rehab center traces its origins to 1828. Over the years it has had different functions, including serving as the hospital for Dow Air Force Base, which shut down in 1968.