CENTERS HEALTH CARE

BUYS FOCUS AT OTSEGO

COOPERSTOWN – Centers Health Care , which operates 42 skilled nursing and rehab facilities in New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, today completed its purchase of Focus Otsego, formerly the county’s Otsego Manor. It will now be known as Cooperstown Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing.

The sale will include Focus Otsego’s Long-Term Home Health Care Program. The Home Health Care Policies and Procedures may vary slightly but will mostly be the same so there won’t be too much of a change for the residents. Home health care not only provides medical assistance when needed but also allows it’s residents to remain independent, if they want to be, and live their life to the full, so residents are thrilled that they can still go about their daily routines without the change affecting their lives too much. They might still have to learn some names of new carers and whatnot, but other than that, daily routines will resume as usual.

“We’re thrilled to welcome with open arms the residents, their family members and our new staff to the Centers family,” said Centers CEO Kenny Rozenberg, “and we rededicate these facilities to providing the finest care and service.”

Rozenberg said Centers has been consulting with Focus since April, a nine-month agreement to upgrade operational and management of the facility on Phoenix Mills Road. The consulting arrangement grew into the purchase.

That gives Centers 19 skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities Upstate, as well as managed long-term care, and adult daycare, home care and assisted living. Centers acquired seven facilities in the central and eastern part of the state from Capital Living in September.