UTICA — St. Joseph Nursing Home Co. of Utica, Inc. on Thursday announced it has agreed to sell its facilities and transfer its operations to URNC, LLC and URNC Realty, LCC, subsidiaries of Personal Healthcare, LLC.
Personal Healthcare describes itself as a health-care organization focused on providing personalized care to seniors through the operation of skilled nursing and rehabilitative care facilities.
St. Joseph Nursing Home didn’t release financial terms of its transfer agreement.
The transfers are contingent upon the approvals of the New York State Department of Health and the New York State Supreme Court, processes which will take “a number of months to complete,” St. Joseph Nursing Home said in a news release.
The facility will operate “business as usual,” St. Joseph Nursing home said.
The organization believes Personal Healthcare, LLC share its views on patient care and “devotion to personal attention,” Michael Calogero, who chairs of the board of directors of St. Joseph Nursing Home, said in the news release.
The facility’s board and members spent “considerable” time and effort formulating a long-term strategy for continuing the care at St. Joseph Nursing Home, Calogero said.
The organization believes Personal Healthcare is “best suited” to continue serving the needs of the St. Joseph community and to carry out its mission of providing “quality” care for the aged and infirm in a home-like atmosphere, he added.
“Given the ever changing regulatory environment and costs associated with maintaining our quality of care, we believe the transfer of operations to another quality nursing-home operator with a proven track record such as Personal Healthcare’s allows the facility to continue to operate as a nursing home, and maintains the beds and jobs in the community,” Calogero said.
Personal Healthcare looks “forward” to serving the Utica community for “many years to come,” Ephraim Zagelbaum, CEO of Personal Healthcare LLC, said in the news release.
“We are excited to take over operations at St. Joseph’s Nursing Home and continue to provide the high quality care patients have been used to for many years,” said Zagelbaum.
Personal Healthcare currently owns and operates seven nursing facilities in New York and Massachusetts, all ranging in size from 80-beds to 183-beds, the company said.
St. Joseph Nursing Home Company of Utica, Inc., a nonprofit corporation, is a 120 bed facility operating at 2535 Genesee Street in Utica.
The Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm have served at St. Joseph Nursing Home since its inception in 1971.
“While the decision of the members and board has been a long and difficult one, the process has been carefully thought out, and we are all confident that Personal Healthcare and its owners represent values that are consistent with St. Joseph Nursing Home’s culture of dignity and respect,” Mother Mark Louis Anne, superior general of the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm, said in the release.
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