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Fully vaccinated resident, employee test positive for COVID at Sullivan County nursing home Modified: 4/22/2021 9:50:19 PM UNITY — The Sullivan County nursing home has returned to outbreak status after a fully vaccinated resident and an employee tested positive for COVID-19, according to the facility’s administrator. The resident lives in the MacConnell building, where the employee who tested positive also works, wrote Ted Purdy, the Unity facility’s administrator in a Wednesday COVID-19 update for families and friends. Now that the facility is on outbreak status, full personal protecti...

Officials set date for decision Sullivan County nursing home Modified: 4/14/2021 9:28:12 PM UNITY — The Sullivan County delegation has set a date later this month to make a decision on the fate of a proposed renovation of the county’s existing nursing home that is expected to cost $54 million. Delegates set April 26 for the vote following a public hearing held in person in Newport, N.H., and via Zoom and Facebook Live on Tuesday evening. Participants in the hearing, which included some current and former employees of the 156-bed facility that sits next to the county jail in Unity, express...

Renovation looking likelier for Sullivan County Nursing Home as new facility would cost a bundle Modified: 2/25/2021 9:57:46 PM UNITY — Sullivan County officials appear to be leaning toward a $54 million renovation of the existing county nursing home, rather than seeking to build a new one due to the higher costs of new construction. Officials estimate an entirely new nursing home either at the county complex in Unity or elsewhere could cost somewhere between $75 million and $80 million, said Mary Bourque, the county’s director of facilities and operations, during a Monday meeting of the ...

COVID-19: Resident dies at Windsor memory care home; Dartmouth eyes commencement changes Modified: 1/21/2021 10:02:23 PM WINDSOR — After testing positive for COVID-19, a man over the age of 90 in the memory center at the Village at Cedar Hill died on Wednesday and another resident has been hospitalized amid an outbreak there, the facility’s co-owner said. As of Thursday, 12 residents and six employees of the Judith Brogren Memory Care Center had tested positive for the disease, said Patricia Horn, the Windsor senior living community’s co-owner. One employee of Cedar Hill Health Care, th...

3 employees test positive for COVID-19 at Sullivan County Nursing Home Staff Report Modified: 12/31/2020 8:10:15 PM UNITY — Three employees at Sullivan County Health Care have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the nursing home’s administrator.  All three, who had worked on the nursing home’s MacConnell Unit, are asymptomatic and now in quarantine at home, said Ted Purdy, the administrator, in a Thursday letter to friends and family members. In response to the positive cases, caregivers on the MacConnell Unit are now wearing “full protective equipment,” including masks, f...