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Nursing Home To Come
RUTH LITTMANN STAFF WRITER
combination of high-heels,
working boots and loafers
on the feet of community
leaders thrust spades into
the muddy earth during a
groundbreaking ceremony Sun-
day in West Bloomfield.
The event, held at the Maple-
Drake Jewish Community Cam-
pus, officially marked the start
to construction of a 70,000-
square-foot Jewish nursing
home, scheduled for completion
within 18 months.
"In every older person's heart,
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dation. HCR operates 127 long-
term care centers in 16 states. It
owns eight in the metro Detroit
area, including Georgian Bloom-
field, Georgian East and Dorvin
Nursing Center.
Licensed for 165 beds, the new
Maple-Drake facility will provide
skilled nursing and rehabilita-
tive services. It will contain a 20-
bed Alzheimer's unit and a
20-bed subacute unit for patients
who need a higher level of care.
Forty percent of the beds will be
certified for Medicaid. Others will
be reserved for private payers.
hundred yards away from the
new home).
"Physically, the building, we
believe, will be a beautiful addi-
tion to this campus. The key is
the service that's provided with-
in this facility," said M. Keith
Weikel, chief operating officer of
HCR. "The real foundation for
this building is not in its physi-
cal structure, but in the people."
Mr. Weikel says HCR looks
forward to ongoing relations with
the Jewish community: "We ap-
preciate your trust in us and we
would ask that, as this project
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one love me? Does anyone
care about me?' This ground- Above: A sketch of
new home as
breaking ceremony provides the
it is predicted to
assurance that there are look in 18
those who love them and months.
those who care about them,"
said Temple Israel Rabbi M.
Robert Syme, who delivered Right: Hats off:
Community
the benediction.
For many years, local Jew- leaders and NCR
ish leaders have considered a officials dig in.
West Bloomfield nursing
home part of the answer to es-
calating needs among the
The nursing home will be a
population of frail elderly. After
the sale of Borman Hall on Sev- one-story structure with court-
en Mile Road, the Jewish Feder- yards, social areas, private and
ation of Metropolitan Detroit and two-person rooms. There will be
United Jewish Foundation a chapel for daily religious ser-
geared up efforts to establish a vices, as well as kosher kitchens.
replacement facility that would The Jewish Home for Aged's
be more central to a northwest- Auxiliary will run a gift shop and
snack bar, as it currently does at
wardly migrating community.
The new home represents a the privately owned Menorah
break with the past in several House in Southfield.
Neighboring facilities will in-
ways. Most notably, the home
will be built and operated by a clude the already established
publicly held company: the Jewish Community Center and
Health Care and Retirement Cor- Holocaust Memorial Center (to
the northeast), as well as Fleis-
poration (HCR).
Headquartered in Toledo, chman Residence, Hechtman
Ohio, HCR will lease the land Residence and Blumberg Plaza
from the United Jewish Foun- (directly north and only a few
goes forward, you continue to
challenge us."
During the groundbreaking
ceremony Sunday, nearly 70 rep-
resentatives of HCR and the
metro Detroit Jewish communi-
ty sat inside a white tent erected
at one end of a stretch of over-
turned soil. Large yellow tractors,
ready for action, protruded from
below a slope in the land. Con-
crete will start to flow this week,
weather permitting, HCR offi-
cials say.
After a musical presentation
by the Zarnir Chorale, the crowd
gathered at nearby Fleischman
Residence for a reception in the
sukkah.
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