ALBANY — After nearly seven decades of business, the official closure of St. Peter’s Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Albany is imminent, and it comes with a mass relocation of employees and patients.
According to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN, posted on March 25, St. Peter’s Health Partners reported 133 of its 188 employees at the time had been affected by the closure. The nonprofit health network announced the closure in early March, citing it cannot afford to shoulder the $60 million in upgrades the aging building requires.
Executive Vice President of Continuing Care Michelle Mazzacco told the Times Union on Monday out of the 133 employees listed on the WARN notice, 92 have accepted new jobs within the St. Peter’s Health Partners healthcare system, 27 are still deciding whether to accept offers and 14 are leaving altogether (retiring or have accepted new jobs outside the health care system)…