Bethel Homes and Services has been awarded a $2.5 million grant by the NYS Department of Health and Dormitory Authority of the State of New York as part of the Statewide Health Care Facility Transformation Program to protect and transform the state’s health care system.
Bethel’s project is one of just 10 to have been selected in the Mid-Hudson region for which $94.5 million has been allocated. It will use the grant to provide integrated services via a modernization of its existing inpatient/community services. This will include the renovation of its 43-bed skilled nursing facility in Ossining to create “neighborhood” settings, a design which will offer an alternative living environment to traditional nursing home facilities. This approach provides smaller, more intimate, familial settings where residents can move freely throughout and even participate in making meals.
In addition, the project will include the implementation of Telehealth medicine onsite, as well as in the community, through Bethel’s Certified Home Health Agency to monitor at-risk patients by providing appropriate levels of care to prevent escalating or recurring health/mental/behavioral issues.
Says Beth Goldstein, Bethel’s CEO, “We are pleased to have received this funding which allows us to provide key, enhanced services for our residents and the community. The progressive concept of “neighborhood” living, which truly embodies the spirit of at-home living, as well as the ability to use Telehealth medicine to help those at-risk and offset downward health spirals which can result in emergency room visits or hospital stays, are critical services we can now provide to ensure healthcare stabilization and quality.”
She continued, “We look forward to working with other healthcare providers in the community as we continue to network and collaborate on how best to serve the health needs of our senior population and the community at large.”
The $94.5 million awarded to recipients in the mid-Hudson region is part of $491 million awarded throughout the state to improve patient care through the development of high-quality medical facilities and programs serving the inpatient, primary care, mental health, substance use disorder and long-term care needs of communities.
