In June, Hospice Executive Director Kavin Cartmell and Director of Development and Public Relations Michael Parker announced HoH was involved in preliminary discussions and strategic planning to determine if the local region could support an assisted living facility and also a separate, Inpatient Center for Hospice patients.
On Saturday, the 17-member Hospice of Hope Board of Directors approved the plan to construct both facilities and to seek funding assistance for construction costs.
"We as an organization needed to commit to the project. Now that we have, we're going forward," Parker said Thursday.
Since September 2009, six HoH board members, as well as Hospice staff have worked to develop a strategic plan to explore the feasibility of such a project, what the costs involved would be and where such a facility would be located.
Those questions have been answered and the result will be a 32-bed assisted living facility and an 8-bed Inpatient Center located on acreage next to the Kenton Station Golf Course and Rainbow Meadows Subdivision on Kentucky 9.
Both the assisted living facility and the Inpatient Center will be on the same campus, which will encompass up to 25 acres.
Senior Living at Kenton Pointe is the name selected for the assisted living facility, which will be a one-story building and will offer three levels of apartments; a studio apartment with a bedroom, bath and kitchenette; one bedroom apartment with a kitchenette, bath and living room; or a deluxe one bedroom apartment with the same number of rooms, but with more square footage.
Cartmell said a waiting list has been started for the assisted living facility."Instead of our seniors having to relocate (out of the area) they can stay here now. They're not going to have to seek this type of facility elsewhere," Cartmell said, adding this is a further benefit to the community because senior citizens volunteer and contribute their time in so many capacities throughout the region.
"This is a feel good, win-win story," Parker said, noting the two facilities will create 48 jobs with an equivalent of 40 full-time jobs; generate an estimated $1 million per year in payroll, enhance community healthcare needs and provide a service that keeps our citizens here.
Jobs will include administrative and management levels, nurses, nurses aids, dietary, housekeeping and more.
The estimated project cost is $7 to $8 million dollars; funding is being sought through federal and state grant programs, private foundations, private donations, and fund-raisers.
Amenities of the assisted living complex will include a country setting, central kitchen and dining room, family and community room, a craft room, exercise room and transportation service for residents.
The Inpatient Center will be in addition to the six Hospice rooms offered at area hospitals and the 5-bed Inpatient Center at Adams County Regional Medical Center.
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