Bethel Receives $2.5M Grant To Transform Ossining Nursing Home

OSSINING, NY — Bethel Homes and Services has been awarded a $2.5 million grant from New York. It's part of a 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 by the NYS Department of Health and Dormitory Authority.

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.

“We are pleased to have received this funding which allows us to provide key, enhanced services for our residents and the community," Says Beth Goldstein, Bethel’s CEO, in an announcement about the grant. "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.

Bethel Homes and Services has been serving the senior community for over 100 years and is the only not-
for-profit full continuum of care in Northern Westchester. Located on three campuses, Croton-on-Hudson, Ossining and Valhalla, Bethel’s continuum includes: Home Care; Adult Day Services; The Pines – Independent Senior Living; Bethel Springvale Inn-Assisted Senior Living; The Knolls – Continuing Care Retirement Community; Bethel Nursing & Rehabilitation Center; Bethel Nursing Home; and Respite Care.