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A i Page M-A—THE BRUNSWICK BEACON, Thursday. November 15. 1987 Speakers Push For Pender, Not Brunswick Nursing Home BY SUSAN USHER Most of the more than 30 people who attended a hearing in Wilm ington last week on location of an area nursing home urged state of ficials to approve a Pender County, rather Uian a Leland location. Pender and Brunswick counties are grouped together in a health ser vice area. State planners with the N.C. Department of Human Resources have allotted the area 68 additional nursing home beds. Last Thursday, the Department’s Cer tificate of Need section heard from advocates for both locations in a public hearing at UNC-Wilmington. The 68 beds for the two counties are in addition to 100 beds allocated in 1985 for Brunswick County. A cer tificate of need was awarded earlier this year to Autumn Care Corp., which is expected to begin construc tion of a 110-bed facility in Shallotte in the near future. Two firms have applied for a cer tificate of need to construct the newly allocated beds. Brian Center Corp. and Brunswick House Nursing Center. Brian Center proposes to build in Pender County a $1.5 million, 88-bed, 28,000-square foot facility with 32 skilled care and 36 intermediate care beds, plus 20 rest home or personal care beds. It would employ between 80 and 90 people. Brunswick House has proposed a $1.2 million, 28,000-squarc foot, 68-bed facility. It would include 17 skilled care, 51 intermediate care and 20 rest home beds and would employ between 65 and 75 people. Owners of Brunswick House are David and Debbie Sherrill of I.eland, William and Rosemary Miller of Leland and C.A. and Frances Butler of Pender County. Miller would build the facilitv. 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After it’s built, the new beis will still be needed.” Among those speaking on belialf of a Pender County location were representatives of the Pender County Department of Social Services, the Pender County Commissioners, Senior Citizens Services of Pender Inc., Rep. Edd Nye, Pender Memorial Hospital and Four County Electric Membership Corp. Sherrill said that regardless of which county gets the facility, or which firm builds it, he expects the nursing center to give Brunswick and Pender County residents higher priority for admission. ”I think it should be,” he said, “because that's who the beds were allotted for.” Both firms presented their pro posals well, he said, and a lot of peo ple were there “for a public hearing." “There was great representation of people from Pender County there,” he added, "and not very many people from Brunswick County.” Speaking on behalf of both Brunswick House and a I.«eland loca tion were Dr. Walter Futch, a medical practitioner, and Ray Boone of United Carolina Bank’s l>eland branch office. According to Sherrill, the Cer tificate of Needs Section can take as long as it wants to make its deter mination and has indicated it would continue to accept letters of support or recommendation up until the day a decision is made. 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