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‘Hail Mary’ funding providing hope for nursing home

To the Editor:   “Hope” being our state motto, it’s very fitting that we never wanted to give up hope in finding a way to...
CHANGE OF PLANS: Jamie Sanford, left, administrator of Linn Health & Rehabilitation in East Providence, and Richard Gamache, center, Aldersbridge Communities CEO, in May check on Elsie Ann Linde, 89, who had moved into rooms at Linn that have been converted to assisted living. Since then, the nursing home had to close but administrators are still awaiting approval to open a memory and dementia care unit.  
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Struggling nursing homes mull change in direction to save themselves

Richard Gamache was armed with a plan to save his nursing home this spring. The question was if he had enough time to put...
UNCERTAIN FUTURE: Brian Huempfer, a physical therapist, works with Helen Kandiuk, a resident at Briarcliffe Manor Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation in Johnston. The nursing home’s owner isn’t sure its current model of operation is sustainable. 
PBN PHOTO/­ELIZABETH GRAHAM

State must help accelerate new nursing home models

State leaders have begun to respond to the pleas for help from struggling nursing homes, but the money will only buy time for an...

Linn Health to close nursing home in July; 48 patients to...

EAST PROVIDENCE – After implementing a “Hail Mary” plan to save its nursing home, Linn Health & Rehabilitation will be closing its doors in...
Richard Gamache / Courtesy Aldersbridge Communities

Richard Gamache

PBN Health Care Heroes 2024 Health Care Administrator – Senior Care: RICHARD GAMACHE Aldersbridge Communities CEO What led you to choose health care as your profession?...
PROVIDENCE BUSINESS NEWS has announced 15 honorees for its 2024 Health Care Summit & Health Care Heroes Awards program.

Miriam Hospital’s Barrett named Career Achiever in PBN’s Health Care Heroes...

PROVIDENCE – Ann Barrett, the director of nursing resources at The Miriam Hospital, has been chosen as the Career Achiever in Providence Business News’...
YOUTH MOVEMENT: Jamie Sanford is one of the youngest nursing home administrators in the state. She’s 37. Most other administrators are nearing retirement age, and the industry is concerned about finding future staffers.  / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Nursing homes struggle to fill staffing positions

While attending a nursing home industry event more than a year ago, Jamie Sanford came to a startling realization: Sanford, 37, was the youngest...
DESIGNATED SITE: Oak Hill Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Pawtucket was designated in late April by the state as a site capable of admitting and treating COVID-19 patients after they are discharged from hospitals. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

The battle within: Pandemic fight at nursing homes proves costly on...

When Rhode Island nursing homes banned visitors in early March as their first defensive move against COVID-19, Susan McGovern and her co-workers at Linn...

Aldersbridge’s ElderVentures program replaces resident’s wedding ring

EAST PROVIDENCE – Emmalou Handford married her neighborhood sweetheart, Otto Kirchmeier, a U.S. Army gunnery chief stationed in Panama, while he was on leave...
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