Monmouth County hires firm for nursing home sale
The firm, one of three interviewed for the no-bid contract, helped six of the nine
The three real estate companies interviewed had reached out to
The freeholders also approved a resolution allowing O'Connor to hire any other professionals needed to facilitate the sale.
Meanwhile, the county is also negotiating an incentive package to keep nursing home employees coming to work until the sale of the nursing homes is complete, expected some time this summer.
It's a difficult time for the more than 300 care center employees, who are facing an uncertain future, said
"Your decisions altered our lives. And when it altered our lives, it altered the residents' lives," she told the freeholders Monday. "We are doing the best we can to bring people into work every day. But it's getting harder and harder. To be honest with you, it's miserable."
The freeholders voted in March to move ahead with the sale after operating the two facilities at a deficit since at least 2007.
In that time, the county spent
One of the big concerns is
A consultant hired by
But the consultant,
Privately-run nursing homes also aren't bound by public sector union contracts.
Seven
Those seven, to date, are not looking at selling their nursing homes, said NJAC executive director
But they, too, face the same fiscal difficulties as the counties that sold, Donnadio said. Counties have privatized related services except for direct health care and are working to form a cooperative purchasing agreement to find additional savings, he said.
"We are looking at all possible ways to help stop the bleeding," he said.
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