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Idaho veterans home administrator Rick Holloway is trustees’ pick for Holyoke Soldiers’ Home superintendent
Updated Apr 01, 2021;
HOLYOKE Pending a final nod by Gov. Charlie Baker, Rick Holloway, administrator for a state veterans home in Boise, Idaho, will head east as the new superintendent of the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke.
Holloway prevailed over another finalist, Robert Engell, a Longmeadow resident and administrator of the Overlook Masonic Health Care Center in Charlton. Members of the selection committee agreed both candidates were qualified, but more than one said they saw Holloway as the more “transformational” of the two.
“Clearly Rick Holloway is head and shoulders above any other candidate . based, in part, on the pure depth of the answers he provided,” said Brig. Gen. Sean T. Collins, one of seven trustees of the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home.
Legislative panel discusses steps to fix organizational lapses at Soldiers’ Home
An ambulance arrives at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke on March 31, 2020. COVID-19 killed 77 veteran residents at the facility. STAFF FILE PHOTO
Modified: 1/24/2021 3:42:59 PM
HOLYOKE Infection control policies, set staffing schedules and protocols for staff training are among measures aimed at improving conditions at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke, hard hit by a COVID-19 outbreak last spring.
In a meeting of a special joint oversight committee of the Legislature on Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Marylou Sudders told lawmakers that interim Soldiers’ Home Superintendent Val Liptak and the team on site are taking a series of steps to make sure that conditions that contributed to the deaths of 77 veteran residents never recur again.
Legislative panel discusses steps to fix organizational lapses at Soldiers’ Home
An ambulance arrives at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke on March 31. COVID killed 77 residents at the home. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO
Published: 1/21/2021 9:57:01 PM
Infection control policies, set staffing schedules and protocols for staff training are among measures aimed at improving conditions at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke, hard hit by a COVID-19 outbreak last spring.
In a special joint oversight committee of the Legislature on Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Marylou Sudders told lawmakers that interim Soldiers’ Home superintendent Val Liptak and the team on site are taking a series of steps to make sure that conditions that contributed to the deaths of 77 veteran residents never recur.