Officials and residents packed the Boston City Council chamber on Tuesday night, yet the operator of the North End Nursing Home said it still plans to close down the 140-bed facility in about a year. For its part, the Boston Redevelopment Authority confirmed that restrictions on the property, designated under urban renewal, must be used for a nursing home Read More…
Boston Redevelopment Authority is expected to participate regarding the property status of the nursing home under the current Land Disposition Agreement (LDA). Partners Healthcare has also been invited to testify at the hearing. Partners recently announced its intention to close the facility and merge existing residents to a facility in Brighton. If you wish to speak at the hearing, Read More…
City Councilor Sal LaMattina will be holding a public hearing regarding the North End Nursing Home on this coming Tuesday, September 13 at 6pm. The hearing will be held at Boston City Hall in the Council Chamber on 5th Floor. Boston Redevelopment Authority is expected to participate regarding the property status of the nursing home under the Read More…
District 1 City Councilor Sal LaMattina filed an order this week calling for a hearing on the North End Nursing Home in front of the Boston City Council. He specifically requests the Boston Redevelopment Authority to explain what agreements are in place regarding the property and how they could apply to this situation. In a Read More…
Brian Golden, Director July 22, 2016 Boston Redevelopment Authority One City Hall Square, 9th Floor Boston MA 02201 RE: Partners North End Nursing Home Dear Mr. Golden: When the BRA argued the case for continued Urban Renewal Zone authority earlier this year, your team emphasized the community benefit of continued strong Land Read More…
The latest efforts to stop the closing of the North End Nursing Home were reviewed at this week’s meeting of the North End / Waterfront Residents’ Association (NEWRA). The Spaulding Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, owned by Partners Healthcare, is located at 70 Fulton Street, on the corner of Richmond, in Boston’s North End neighborhood. North End resident, Jason Aluia, Read More…
Citywide media were on the scene for the latest City Hall employee indictment, but North End / Waterfront residents tried to get the Mayor’s attention on several community issues at Wednesday’s coffee hour. Neighbors came out in force to protest the closing of the North End Nursing Home and to stop the proposed developments at Harbor Garage and Read More…
The word respect in Latin meant to “look at” and it is with much sadness that I write this letter in response to the news of the closure of the 140-bed North End Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center that Partners Healthcare owns and is planning to close in about a year’s time. Seniors and Read More…
After last week’s emotional meeting on the announced closing of the North End Nursing Home, a group has formed under “Save the North End Nursing Home” with an online petition. They have also started a website and Facebook page, encouraging those interested to join. The petition reads: The North End community recently discovered Partners HealthCare’s plans to close the Read More…
Adding to the interest in the Partners Nursing Home, might I modestly add an overlooked point: The location of the home is a historic North End site. At the corner of Fulton and Richmond was a rickety building, perhaps dating to the 1700s, that was home of The Italian News in the early and mid-1950s. This weekly Read More…
North End residents and family members confronted company management planning to close the North End Nursing Home at the Monday night meeting of the North End / Waterfront Neighborhood Council (NEWNC). President of the Spaulding Rehabilitation Network, David Storto, met face to face with the neighborhood stakeholders who are vowing to fight the transfer of nursing home residents to Read More…
As many of you have heard, we recently made the difficult but necessary decision to move our skilled nursing operations to a facility in Brighton. The dedicated staff members of Spaulding North End have provided excellent care to residents for many years despite the significant physical and structural limitations of the facility itself. These limitations Read More…