Renovation looking likelier for Sullivan County Nursing Home as new facility would cost a bundle
Modified: 2/25/2021 9:57:46 PM
UNITY Sullivan County officials appear to be leaning toward a $54 million renovation of the existing county nursing home, rather than seeking to build a new one due to the higher costs of new construction.
Officials estimate an entirely new nursing home either at the county complex in Unity or elsewhere could cost somewhere between $75 million and $80 million, said Mary Bourque, the county’s director of facilities and operations, during a Monday meeting of the Executive Finance Committee held in person in Newport and also streamed on Zoom and Facebook Live.
COVID-19: Fifth resident dies in Sullivan County nursing home outbreak
Modified: 2/4/2021 10:00:06 PM
UNITY A fifth resident of the Sullivan County nursing home has died after testing positive for COVID-19 during an ongoing outbreak at the facility, according to the administrator.
A total of 128 people have tested positive during the outbreak at the Unity nursing home, including 82 residents and 46 workers, 30 of whom have recovered and returned to work, facility administrator Ted Purdy said in a Thursday email.
Nearby, an outbreak at the Sullivan County Department of Corrections included a total of 45 cases, including 33 inmates and 12 employees as of Thursday, County Manager Derek Ferland said in an email. Six employees and six inmates have recovered.
COVID-19: Death toll at Unity nursing home rises to 4 as outbreak hits 120 infections
Modified: 1/29/2021 10:05:57 PM
UNITY Four residents have now died at a Sullivan County nursing home in a COVID-19 outbreak that has grown to be the largest in the Upper Valley thus far, according to the facility’s administrator.
The outbreak as of Friday includes a total of 120 people, 79 residents and 41 employees, said Ted Purdy, the Unity nursing home’s administrator, in a Facebook post.
Hanover Terrace, with a total of 111 cases, was previously the largest outbreak in the region. That outbreak, which left seven residents dead, has ended.
COVID-19: Resident dies at Windsor memory care home; Dartmouth eyes commencement changes
Modified: 1/21/2021 10:02:23 PM
WINDSOR After testing positive for COVID-19, a man over the age of 90 in the memory center at the Village at Cedar Hill died on Wednesday and another resident has been hospitalized amid an outbreak there, the facility’s co-owner said.
As of Thursday, 12 residents and six employees of the Judith Brogren Memory Care Center had tested positive for the disease, said Patricia Horn, the Windsor senior living community’s co-owner. One employee of Cedar Hill Health Care, the community’s nursing home, has also tested positive, she said in an email.
COVID-19 cases climb in Claremont; schools shift to remote learning
Modified: 1/7/2021 10:22:52 PM
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CLAREMONT The Claremont School Board voted to shift to remote learning through next Friday amid an increasing number of COVID-19 cases in the city, including one each in the Claremont Middle School and Stevens High School.
The 5-2 vote on Wednesday evening came the same day the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services’ map showed that Claremont’s case count had risen to 75. That’s more than two times the case count of Hanover, which with 30 cases had the next highest count on the New Hampshire side of the Upper Valley.