Rhode Island — A Providence, RI, nursing home in June announced plans to close at the end of August as a result of negative conditions caused by the novel coronavirus.
Hallworth House Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, a 57-bed non profit skilled nursing facility that opened in 1958, filed a plan with the Rhode Island Department of Health to stop operations.
“The facility had lost more than $1.3 million in the last two years while maintaining high standards of care, but the COVID-19 pandemic made it impossible to continue,” Patricia Nolan, M.D., chair of the Hallworth House board, told local news outlets.
The closure announcement comes amid growing concern about the financial stability of the state’s 85 long-term care facilities. Combined, the facilities housed approximately 7,800 residents at the start of the year, according to the Health Department. Since then, at least 2,570 of those residents have contracted COVID-19, and at least 675 have died.
From the July/August 2020 Issue of McKnight's Long-Term Care News
