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According to Gregory Brown, the facility’s director, “we stopped taking new admissions over the summer and directed patients to some of the existing 48 nursing homes in the Bronx. Brown noted there are about twelve thousand nursing home beds in the Bronx and “we know already that these facilities are interested in accepting our residents.”
“The nursing home market has changed over the years,” Brown said. “We opened Loeb when there was a dire need for beds to treat long-and short-term nursing home patients. The nursing home community can now meet that need on its own. We will completely renovate the vacant Loeb space and use it for acute inpatient care,” he said.Administrators met with Loeb residents and their families over the summer and discussed relocation options. “Paramount to any decisions,” said Brown, “are our concerns about geographic locations and access to public transportation. We want to ensure that residents continue to have access to, family members and friends.”
Brown says the Loeb closure is not expected to have a negative effect on its employees since it is a hospital-based facility. “Loeb Center employees have been offered vacant positions within Montefiore at either the Moses or Weiler Divisions and also will have had an opportunity to apply for vacant positions in satellite clinics and other non-inpatient medical center sites,” he said.
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