February 5, 2018
Posted at 17:54h CATEGORIES: All Articles, Elderwood

Wheatfield resident Kelly Myhalenko, a dietitian at Elderwood at Wheatfield, has been named an Elderwood 2017 Service Excellence Award winner. Considered Elderwood’s highest honor, the award is presented annually to staff who work toward providing quality health care and demonstrate honesty, integrity, reliability, teamwork and respect for co-workers, residents and families. To be considered for the award, staff must be full-time employees who have been with Elderwood 10 years or longer. “Kelly consistently demonstrates Elderwood’s core values and leads by example on a daily basis,” said Administrator Shannon Cayea. “Resident health and wellness is always a top priority and she is always willing to jump in and assist any department when needed.” The Service Excellence Award was presented at Elderwood’s annual staff recognition celebration honoring employees marking milestone anniversaries of five, 10 or more years with the organization. In all, 33 percent of Elderwood staff have dedicated five or more years of service, and 20 percent of employees have been with Elderwood for 10 or more years. This year, Elderwood recognized 254 individuals for five to 35 years of service. Contributed photo Elderwood at Wheatfield Administrator Shannon Cayea congratulates dietitian Kelly Myhalenko on her 2017 Service Excellence Award. See Full Article...

February 2, 2018
Posted at 14:40h CATEGORIES: All Articles, Elderwood

New York City-based Centers Health Care has been buying up upstate nursing homes at a staggering rate in recent years, but a local nursing home sold in recent months to a company other than Centers. Tri-County Nursing Home in Johnsburg was sold last month to a different New York City company, Post Acute Partners LLC, which owns nursing homes in Lake Placid, other parts of New York and in New England. Sun Community News has a full article on the sale here, which includes a mention that the home will now be known as Elderwood at North Creek. (The name sounds like something out of a Harry Potter book, but I digress.) The company runs 11 nursing homes in New York under the Elderwood name, and their ratings seem pretty solid, most of them 3 or 4 stars out of 5 in federal ratings, with a few even getting 5 stars. The Lake Placid homes is a two-star facility, as was Tri-County at the time of the sale Tri-County, an 82-bed home, had been one of the initial suitors years ago for Warren County's former nursing home, Westmount Health Facility. The county later sold it to Centers Health Care, and it went from a...

February 2, 2018
Posted at 14:33h CATEGORIES: All Articles, Elderwood

Purchase enables Elderwood to expand in Niagara Region Elderwood at Lockport, formerly Odd Fellow & Rebekah Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, became the newest member of the Elderwood Care Community, effective Tuesday. The skilled nursing facility is located at 104 Old Niagara Road, Lockport. Last year the Odd Fellow and Rebekah's board of directors actively sought a buyer that had the residents' and local community's interests at heart. Elderwood has a reputation for providing high-quality care, something that is reflected in its quality reporting measures and patient satisfaction scores. "We are pleased to welcome Odd Fellow and Rebekah into the Elderwood family of companies. This acquisition allows Elderwood to expand its presence further into Niagara County," Dr. Jeffrey Rubin, co-CEO, said. "We plan to leverage the excellent reputation and care provided by the staff, and will work together to enhance the services provided at the facility." Fundamental to the company mission and values is the goal to ensure care remains local. Providing quality health care to local communities is important to Elderwood, as it focuses on building a deep and local presence in the markets they serve. Elderwood at Lockport will be led by Administrator Shari Hutchison. Along with the Wheatfield campus, Elderwood at Lockport...

February 2, 2018
Posted at 13:57h CATEGORIES: All Articles

By Tracey Drury  –  Reporter, Buffalo Business First Jan 8, 2018, 6:05am Post Acute Partners, the owners of the Elderwood nursing home network, has completed a deal that brings it into the Rochester market for the first time. The company on Jan. 2 completed the $11.5 million acquisition of the nonprofit Lakeside Beikirch Care Center. The 120-bed residential health care facility is now known as Elderwood of Lakeside at Brockport. The facility, with skilled nursing and short-term rehabilitation, was part of the Lakeside Health System. It sits next door to the former Lakeside Memorial Hospital, which closed in April 2013. Post Acute Partners is co-owned by Warren Cole and Jeffrey Rubin. Its Elderwood Administrative Services division is based in Buffalo at 500 Seneca. The company is currently working to acquire the majority of programs at Weinberg Campus in Getzville, including Rosa Coplon Jewish Home, Dosberg Manor Adult Home & Assisted Living, Forest Creek Independent Living Facility,; Garden House Assisted Living, Meadows Assisted Living,; the Town Square for Aging facility and a certified home health agency program. In all, the company employs over 4,000 at more than 20 facilities in three states, with deals pending for more than a dozen acquisitions. Source: https://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/news/2018/01/08/elderwood-parent-completes-brockport-nursing-home.html...

January 30, 2018
Posted at 20:12h CATEGORIES: All Articles

By Thomas J. Prohaska The Buffalo News The Odd Fellow and Rebekah Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Lockport officially became Elderwood at Lockport Tuesday. Last March, the Odd Fellow board sold the 126-bed nursing home to Elderwood for $10 million. At the time, administrator Eugene L. Urban said the local board had been seeking a buyer for three or four years, and chose Elderwood from among six potential suitors. Shari Hutchison will be the new administrator of Elderwood at Lockport, according to a news release from Post Acute Partners, Elderwood's parent firm. Elderwood operates nursing homes or assisted living facilities in eight Erie County communities and in Wheatfield, its only other Niagara County location. It also operates facilities in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. See Full Article...

Related Posts