The Gardens at Depugh Nursing Center said it cannot keep up with the cost of keeping the facility running.
“They’re broken-hearted,” Richard Baldwin, the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the facility, said. “Many of these are people who didn’t have anywhere else to go.”
Come December 1st, the facility will no longer serve residents. Baldwin said the decision to close comes as Medicare reimbursement rates have not kept up with inflation and the costs of running the facility.
“The cost here to operate a bed, regardless of the type it was, was about $500 a night,” Baldwin said. “The reimbursement rate for Medicare was about $270.”…