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STATE APPROVES COUNTY SALE

OF OTSEGO MANOR TO INVESTOR

Kay Stuligross
Kay Stuligross

COOPERSTOWN – The state Department of Health has approved a “certificate of need,” the final hurdle to completing the sale of Otsego Manor, the county nursing home, to Focus Ventures of Rockland County.

County Rep. Kay Stuligross, D-Oneonta, who chairs the Otsego Manor Committee, received word at mid-morning today.

“We don’t know yet when we will be able to close,” said said. “A lot has to happen first in addition to the sprinklers simply in closing one business and starting a new one seamlessly.”

The county board learned at its monthly meeting Wednesday that the Manor’s sprinkler system had failed an inspection, and it would have to be replaced at an estimated $70,000.

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