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Seniors to be booted out of Park Slope nursing home due to closure plan
More than 100 elderly residents at the Prospect Park Residence at 1 Prospect Park West have been given just 90 days to pack their bags and find another place to live before the facility shuts down.
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The Prospect Park Residence at 1 Prospect Park West is set to close in three months.
Call it unassisted living.
More than 100 elderly residents of a Park Slope nursing home have been given just 90 days to pack their bags and find another place to live before the facility shuts down.
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Officials at the Prospect Park Residence told the senior citizens and their families at a heated meeting Wednesday that the 15-year-old facility will close in 90 days.
“I’m very shocked,” Eli Pearce, 85, a retired professor who has been living at the center on Prospect Park West for two years, said Thursday. “We were not informed at all. Everyone is upset.”
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Pearce said he and other blindsided residents were outraged when they heard they would have to leave by June. Employees at the 139-bed facility said they were just as stunned.
“They should at least give a year notice,” said a 10-year aide. “We feel sorry for these elderly people.”
Prospect Park Residence executive director David Pomerantz said in a statement that the decision to close “was not an easy one.”
Management and the building owner have been battling “escalating costs” for the past five years and a tax increase of nearly $1 million this year has made the facility too expensive to run, according to the statement.
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“Today, despite its best efforts, Prospect Park Residence is no longer viable,” said Pomerantz.
The facility has vowed to help relocate tenants and assist employees in finding another place to work.
The state Department of Health approved the plan to close the full service assisted living center last week.
Elected officials are calling on Haysha Deitsch, the owner of the nine-story building, to stop the closure.
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“To throw our elderly neighbors out on the street is cruel, heartless, and unacceptable,” said Councilman Brad Lander (D-Park Slope), Assemblywoman Joan Millman (D-Cobble Hill), and Assemblyman James Brennan (D-Park Slope) in a joint statement.
Deitsch could not immediately be reached for comment.
The nursing facility is where Brooklyn civil court Judge John Philips suffered from shoddy treatment that led to his 2008 death, according to a 2010 lawsuit filed by his family.
The facility also operated for years without a license and failed to properly care for dozens of dementia patients, causing at least one to die, a 2013 lawsuit alleges.
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