A nursing home on Long Island is shutting down, leaving employees without jobs and residents scrambling to find new homes just a week before Christmas.
Long Island nursing home employees were told they will lose their jobs and residents may lose their homes a week before the holidays. Several employees at the Cold Spring Hills Center For Nursing And Rehabilitation in Woodbury say they were told the facility will shut down, employees will lose their jobs and residents will have to find a new home with just a week before the holidays.
In 2022, Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against the facility claiming it diverted millions of dollars of government funding from resident care. 'We just got an email today saying that, it was like a termination letter, that effective Dec. 23, we would all not have jobs,” said Muscarella.Jordan Charles, who worked at Cold Spring Hills for over a decade, says he and his coworkers were told the closure would also affect residents. 'They gave us the notice today that the facility is going to be closing, 48 hours for the residents to be removed,” he said. Marie Jean-Baptiste, another employee of over 27 years at Cold Spring Hills, says she feels horrible knowing long-time residents will have to find a new home. 'I'm here almost 27 years and some of them are here 21, 23, 25 ,” she said. “So, you move these residents and they're going to go somewhere else. It's not nice, it's not nice at all.' The State Department of Health requires a facility take several steps before it can close its doors for good. Those steps include providing 120 days prior notice, receiving prior written approval for the closure, withholding announcements of a plan to close prior to receiving approval, and notifying each patient, resident, next of kin, sponsor, and physician once granted an approval to clos
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