Taxpayer Funded 'Health Care' 'Home' For Residents Includes 'Cafe', 'Library,' 'Game Room,' 'Computer Access,' Single And Double Rooms, Dental & Eye Care Clinics
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 6, 2006
Passaic County Board of Chosen Freeholders have demonstrated their commitment to the health and well being of their most fragile citizens by beginning an upgrade of the county’s sub-acute and long-term care facilities at Preakness Healthcare Center
NEW FACILITY AT PREAKNESS HEALTHCARE CENTER
WAYNE - Passaic County Board of Chosen Freeholders have demonstrated their commitment to the health and well being of their most fragile citizens by beginning an upgrade of the county’s sub-acute and long-term care facilities at Preakness Healthcare Center. A groundbreaking ceremony will be held 2 p.m. Wednesday, October 18 at the site at 305 Oldham Road, Wayne, N.J.
Passaic County will offer residents of Preakness Healthcare Center a new facility that will contain state of the art equipment as well as cost efficient systems. The three-story addition will cover 196,000 square feet and house 406 beds.
The new building will be attached to Building #3 on Oldham Road in Wayne, which was built in 1988. Building #1 in Haledon, built in 1929, and Building #2 in Wayne, built in 1939, will be razed.
The new facility has been designed for today’s long term residents who may have chronic illnesses, but may be younger. The new addition will be a modern state of the art building. With the opening of the new building, the two locations in Wayne and Haledon will be consolidated allowing all the residents to live in one unit.
Preakness Healthcare Center provides skilled nursing and sub acute care for adult residents. Medical services include but are not limited to rehabilitation therapy, wound care, peritoneal dialysis, Alzheimer’s, dementia, multiple sclerosis, mental health services, and hospice and respite care. Preakness Healthcare Center will continue to offer one of the four special care behavioral units in New Jersey. Future services include a ventilator unit with hemodialysis capabilities
The new facility will be designed as a home for the residents, with amenities such as a Main Street with a café, library and game room. There will be a single rooms as well as double rooms. The building will be wired for computer access for the residents
A dental and eye care clinic will be available for residents. Preakness Healthcare Center offers a full time chaplain and offers diversified religious services.
Contracts were awarded to the lowest responsible bidder in five categories. They are as follows:
- Weir Welding of Carlstadt for structural steel in the amount of $7,381,000
- A & A Industrial Piping of Fairfield for HVAC systems in the amount of $11,566,000.00
- R.C.C. Electric, Inc. of Paterson for electrical work in the amount of $5,880,413.00
- M & R Mechanical Contractors, Inc. of Highlands for plumbing work in the amount of $4,988,000,00
- Prismatic Development Corp. of Fairfield for all other work in the amount of $31,600,000.00
The Freeholders will continue their 77-year commitment to healthcare and continue their legacy of caring for the most needy in Passaic County.
“This project is needed to serve our many elderly residents who have no other place to go,” said Freeholder Pat Lepore, Chairman of the Human Services Committee. “The Passaic County Freeholders will not turn their back on Passaic County’s citizens who need care the most.”
Contact:
Dolores Choteborsky,
Passaic County Public Information Officer
973-569-5050
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