Sam Flaxman News Today

The first Pickleball Minds conference was held last Friday and it brought together hundreds of industry leaders to discuss the business of pickleball.

In Connecticut, our elders are in jeopardy of losing their homes in long term care. The community must come together and support our elderly.

A 5-star nursing home in Connecticut was granted the right to close Friday, a move the owner pursued as the state tries to eliminate 1,000 beds.

The closure of Hughes Health & Rehabilitation, a 5-star facility, is partly due to a shift to home and community-based care, its owner said.

For the last six years, Jeannette Crowe has called the Hughes Health and Rehabilitation Center home. The 84-year-old with multiple sclerosis expected to die at the five-star facility, surrounded by the staff that has become like family.  But all that changed last month, when Sam Flaxman — the grandson of the man who bought the West Hartford building in 1961 and turned it into a 170-bed long-term care home — walked into a meeting with the 81 residents still living at Hughes to make a stunnin...

The closure of Hughes Health and Rehabilitation Center is in part a consequence of a statewide shift to home and community-based services and in part due to declining occupancy and swelling costs.

The closure of Hughes Health & Rehabilitation, a 5-star facility, is partly due to a shift to home and community-based care, its owner said.

Nursing home operators need state approval to close and Hughes applied in late March, based on rising health care costs and a trend toward home care that have eroded profits.

Hughes Health & Rehabilitation of West Hartford has lost $1.38 million since 2021, and its occupancy rate has fallen to 51%, according to its petition to close.

"The decision to close Hughes Health and Rehabilitation, Inc. comes after numerous attempts to revitalize the center’s declining census," the letter signed by President Sam Flaxman said