Nursing home breaks ground
Milford. The complex will include a 70-bed nursing home and 50-unit assisted housing facility. Plans began four years ago, and a ribbon-cutting is anticipated in a year.
Westfall /
| 30 Aug 2019 | 06:39
A crowd gathered to celebrate the groundbreaking on Aug. 27. The new 70-bed nursing home. (
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Joan Edel and Robin Skinner, Pike County Area Agency on Aging; Bernadette Jones, Serving Seniors; and Christian Ferro, representing PA Rep. Rosemary Brown. (
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Michael DePetris, Legend Properties; Mike Kelly, president of Senior Health Care; and David DePeters. (
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Mike Sullivan, Executive Director of the Pike County Economic Development Authority; Pike County Commissioner Ronald Schmalzle; PA Sen. Lisa Baker; Pike County Commissioner Matt Osterberg; and PA Rep. Mike Peifer. (
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A group of seniors came to check out the new site. (
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Rendering of Delaware Valley Skilled Nursing Center (
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Rendering of the Delaware Valley Personal Care Center (
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Melissa Anthony and Tammy Chandler, Senior Health Care Solutions; Linda Korgeski and Mary Anne Maloney, Serving Seniors; and Robin Skinner, Pike County Area Agency on Aging (
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A crowd gathered to celebrate the Aug. 27 groundbreaking. (
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Mike Sullivan, executive director of the Pike County Development Authority, said to laughter from the crowd that the project began four and one-half years ago, when he actually had hair. (
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Nicole Hammer of Karen Ann Quinlin Hospice, Newton, N.J. (
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Mike Sullivan, executive director of the Pike County Development Authority, said plans for Westfall's soon-to-be nursing home and assisted housing complex began four and one-half years ago, when he actually had hair.
A crowd gathered on Aug. 27 to celebrate the groundbreaking for the facilities, which will rise just behind Home Depot near the river. Grimm Construction Company sponsored the celebration.
The nursing home will have 70 beds, and the assisted housing facility will have 50 units when they are complete. The dignitaries present said they were happily anticipating the 125 to 150 new jobs the new facilities will bring to the area. Sullivan said he expected that the ribbon-cutting for the completed facilities will be held in about a year.
After the state and local officials dug the first ceremonial shovel-fulls, everyone partook of light refreshments. They watched as as Grimm Construction continued to excavate and place the foundation.
Pike County Commissioner Matt Osterberg asked people to call him (570-296-7613) with recommendations of other good locations in the county where additional senior health care complexes might be built.