Thanks to funding from Partners HealthCare and Massachusetts General Hospital, Windemere Nursing and Rehabilitation Center will be getting $3 million for exterior building renovations.
“We’re very excited,” Windemere administrator Ken Chisholm said Thursday. “We have a lot of needs on the outside of Windemere.”
Through a $2 million grant from Massachusetts General Hospital and a $1 million grant from Partners, the facility’s exterior will see a complete overhaul: all windows, siding, outside doors and decking will be replaced, Mr. Chisholm said.
Deficit Staggers Nursing Home
Operating Loss of $500,000 Is Mainly Attributable to Loss of
Medicaid Payments from the State
By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer
Leaders at the Windemere Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center
announced this week that the Island's only nursing home ended its
fiscal year with a staggering $500,000 operating loss, more than
$300,000 over the projected loss for the year. About half the loss can
be traced to retroactive cuts in Medicaid reimbursements.
New Windemere Administrator Foresees Turnaround at Vineyard Nursing
Center
By MANDY LOCKE
Just past the entrance way of Windemere Nursing and Rehabilitation
Center, Philip Hickey sits in a fishbowl.
Hospital leaders gave themselves a checkup this week, and while no crisis was detected, there was a prescription - for more work.
He has been on the job two months now, and no one calls him Mr.
Dresser anymore.