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Above left:
New skilled care and
assisted living facility
Above right:
Resident dining area
Bottom left:
Assisted-living
private suite
BEAM
by beam and board by
board, an attractive new nursing
home is taking shape on the Alice
Hyde Medical Center campus—
with the emphasis on “home.” is
$35 million facility replaces a 1960s
medical setting with a more homelike
atmosphere where seniors will receive
the speci c level of care they require.
While the two-building complex
will have 135 beds for residents
who need skilled nursing care,
the feature that sets this facility
apart from others in northern
New York is its 30-bed assisted-
living program (ALP). e ALP is
designed to assist people with daily
activities such as meals, medication
management, bathing supervision
and transportation.
ALP residents will enjoy studio-
like private rooms with private
showers and kitchenettes. e two-
story building will have a country
kitchen and large living room for
everyone to enjoy.
Meeting a need
“People deserve this option that
is already o ered in neighboring
counties,” says Alice Hyde
Medical Center Nursing Home
Administrator Dorothy Zegarelli.
“It ful lls an unmet long-term care
need in Franklin County.”
e new home will also include
a memory support unit with
specialized programming and a
physical rehabilitation unit. e
S K I L L E D C A R E
A N D A S S I S T E D
L I V I N G C E N T E R
A nice
place to
call home
three-story skilled-care building will
be divided into six neighborhoods,
each with 12 to 28 suites and a
shared large living room. e dining
rooms on each oor will boast large
country kitchens allowing sta to
serve restaurant-style meals to the
residents.
The comforts of home—
and more
is contemporary design for
senior care promotes privacy and
dignity. In contrast, picture your
grandmother or mother being
wheeled down a nursing home hall
in her robe and with her hair in a
towel a er a shower. at’s probably
not her style, right?
“ at’s how we have to do it now,
but the new facility will have showers
in every private room and in each
companion suite. Each oor will
have a spa area for leisurely baths,”
Zegarelli says. “ ere will also be a
beauty parlor for the complex.”
