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Kingsway plans more private rooms $8.3 million addition to include unit for Alzheimer’s patients
BY MICHAEL LAMENDOLA Gazette Reporter

   Kingsway Senior Residential Community plans to modernize its 34-yearold facilities on Kings Road by building an $8.3 million, two-story addition next year.
   The 56,000-square-foot addition will allow Kingsway to convert double-occupancy rooms into private rooms, nearly doubling the number of private rooms to 134 beds, and increase common areas for residents, families and staff.
   It also will allow it to create a dedicated unit for Alzheimer patients, and this should help reduce health care costs by keeping senior citizens with the disease out of nursing homes, said Michael McPartlon, Kingsway vice president and chief operating offi cer.
   The addition will contain 40 skilled nursing beds on the fi rst floor and 20 assisted living beds on the second. It will connect the 160-bed Kingsway Arms Nursing Center to the 120-bed Kingsway Manor Assisted Living facility.
   The 20-bed Alzheimer’s unit will be placed in the assisted living facility, which will be remodeled after the addition is built. The number of nursing home beds will remain the same at 160.
   “We are modernizing our facility to meet current and future needs of residents and families, and providing more private rooms, we feel, is something customers will expect out into the future,” McPartlon said. “This is something we have had on the drawing board for some time.”
   Construction is scheduled to begin in spring 2008 and take about 18 months to complete. The privately owned com- pany expects to add 20 to 30 jobs to its 400-person staff once the addition is built.
   “We offer a full range of services from home care to independent living, respite, adult day care and assisted living. The one void was a unit dedicated toward treatment of people with Alzheimer’s and dementia,” McPartlon said.
   Kingsway keeps some residents with Alzheimer’s and dementia on its 25-acre campus and also refers some to other facilities. The dedicated unit will allow more of them to remain “in the most independent setting possible, which will hopefully delay their entry into nursing homes,” McPartlon said.
   The city of Schenectady Industrial Development Agency is providing Kingsway with a sales tax exemption on construction materials and will offer a payment-in-lieuof-taxes agreement on the addition. The PILOT will phase in taxes over a 10-year period.
   Ray Gillen, chairman of the Metroplex Development Authority, said the project “adds jobs and is good construction work. It helps a major employer expand.”
   Metroplex administers the city IDA.
   The New York state Department of Health is reviewing Kingsway’s certificate of need for the project, said spokesman Jeffrey Hammond. “While no new services are being added to the nursing home as part of this conversion, an increase in the number of private rooms should lead to a higher quality of life for the residents of the facility,” he said.
   Dr. J. Peter McPartlon started Kingsway in 1974. His son, Michael McPartlon, now manages the business.

  
  
  

Sounds great.  I just wonder, is this officially in Rotterdam or Schenectady?  Just wondering, as one affects my property taxes more than the other.

They are clearly getting ready for the 'boombers'! Hope they play the Rolling Stones and the Eagles when the boomers get there. And not Glen Miller or Berl Ives!

they are in schenectady.....

Well than no tax benefit for Rotterdam! Just  extra rooms to put the boomers!