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Ms. Feldman said about her im-
pending move to Danto, one of
two kosher nursing homes in the
city. "But rm taking it in stride.
I can't help myself."
"She's scared," said her daugh-
ter, Sally Lepofsky. "You can't
blame her. She's being uprooted.
She said to me, 'Everybody tells
me how beautiful it is, but tell me
how the care is going to be, how
the food is going to be.' "
Ms. Feldman, who cannot
walk, is among the last residents
to leave Prentis, which has been
sold to a company that plans to
operate an assisted care facility
for Jewish seniors in the same
building.
The 165-bed Danto Center
has 40 beds set aside for Medic-
aid recipients. Thirty-two of
those beds were reserved for
Prentis residents like Ms. Feld-

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man. Danto officially opened on
Monday.
Other Prentis residents have
been transferred to Menorah
House, the other kosher nursing-
care facility in the area, and
nonkosher homes like the Dorvin
Nursing Center in Livonia.
The Danto Center, located on
the Jewish Community Campus
in West Bloomfield, is "gorgeous,
just like a movie," said 87-year-
old Libby Partrite. Her niece took
her there over the weekend to see
her new digs.
"I couldn't imagine it would be
so pretty," Ms. Partrite said.
Moving is nothing new to her:
During the past 13 years, she's
lived at Fleischman Residence,
then Menorah House, then Pren-
tis. Yet leaving behind her
friends, many of them staffers at
Prentis, choked her up as she sat

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"That's my style," she says in tare. As usual, she had too much
an accent tinged with French, He- work to do.
For three decades, Ms.
brew, German and Yiddish. fig-
tire if I held on for 36 years, never Zomberg's days began at 6 a.m.
late, never absent, God blessed and ended at 3 p.m., sans break-
fast or lunch. Despite her 110-
me."
With the closing of Prentis this pound frame, she found the
week, Ms. Zomberg's routine will strength to elevate or lift patients
come to an abrupt halt. She won't into the slings that enabled them
be following some of the to get out of bed,
patients she's come to love
washed them, dressed
Etka Zomberg:
to the new Marvin and The most senior them, supported them
as they walked down
employee at
Betty Danto Family
the hall, and helped to
Prentis.
Health Care Center in
feed them.
West Bloomfield—it's too
Then she changed their bed-
far from her home in Oak Park
- or to Menorah House in South- clothes. She figures she tended to
field, the only other kosher nurs- eight patients every day.
"I don't care for myself. What
ing care facility in the city.
Maybe she'll go to Paris, she I have to do I do. That's my job.
says, where her husband Yaakov, Maybe it's silly because I make
who died in 1978, ran a restau- myself in danger, but I don't care.
rant after they were married. I do because I want. That's my
"I can find any job," she says habit," she says. "Maybe God paid
me off. He blessed me with
with a wave of her hand.
Yet Ms. Zomberg, who stands health; that's the main thing."
When Petoskey closed, Ms.
well under 5 feet tall, wasn't
thinking too much about the fu- Zomberg was given the choice of

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