Crestview Care Center, Milford
Crestview Care Center in Milford is all but closed, with no residents remaining at the center as of Oct. 9.
In Utica, six residents were still living at the Azria Health Utica care center as of Oct. 7, with three more expected to move this week.
Jonathan Jank, president of the Seward County Chamber and Development Partnership, gave an update on the closures at a Milford Chamber of Commerce meeting Oct. 10.
“It was really a gut-punch for us as a community, as a county,” Jank said.
The care centers were bought in mid-September by Azria Health, which announced Sept. 23 that it would close four Nebraska nursing facilities on Nov. 21, displacing about 240 employees and just over 200 residents in Milford, Utica, Blue Hill and Columbus.
That closing date, though, may come more than a month sooner if the centers are no longer housing residents.
“It went much more quickly than we ever expected,” Jank said, adding that only management is left working at Crestview.
No residents to care for means no work for cooks, nursing aides, housekeeping staff or others, whose hours have been cut or positions eliminated.
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