Newspapers / The Brunswick beacon. / Jan. 10, 1985, edition 1 / Page 3
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Sha BY SUSAN USHER Shailottc- officials are backing a Rocky Mount company's efforts to build a 110-bed nursing home within the town limits. They endorsed Autumn Care Corp.'s plans Wednesday night and also resolved a zoning question involving one of two possible sites for the home. Autumn Care Corp. of Rocky Mount is one of six companies competing for state approval to build a nursing home in Brunswick County. While two firms have said they would build in the Shallotte area, Autumn P tV. 1 *?_ nun van; uuoiu a cnuuiacnibiu because it is the only one of the six uiai pi opuses to build Within the Shallotte city limits. The other firms interested in the Shallotte area are Health Care and Retirement Corp. of America, and Britthaven Inc. which ims sn option on property one-half mile outside the town on Holden Beach Road. Aldermen pledged their support and agreed to send a delegation to an upcoming public hearing to speak on Inuiuimi v_ ciic i? ueiiaii auer iieanng a presentation from Douglas Suddreth, .. V? HU -e. nlnnnnp tuhimn " ' VU'M' IV. Nursing H BY SUSAN USHER A Jan. 16 public hearing on proposals to provide 100 long term nursing home beds in Brunswick County will be held in Southport rather than in Bolivia. Craig Smith, health systems anaylyst for project review with Cardinal Health Systems Agency of l.nmberton. said Thursday that the hearing will begin at 1 p.m. in the second floor meeting room of Southport City Hall, the old county courthouse. Will Hear Br A representative of Britthaven Inc.. of Hookerton was to meet Thursday with Shaliottc Mayor Beamon Hcweti lo review thai company's proposal to build a nursing I home outside the town. Glenn Potter was the spokesman scheduler! lo meet Hewett at 4 p.m. Potter and another BriHiiavc-n employee. Cathy Matthews, told Brunswick County commissioners Monday night that they intend to seek annexation by the town if their pro| posai is approved. I tlln?la* I ? 1 --1-. pi?11 .? ???oi T ivuiicaua) uigiii, oilillliHic aldermen endorsed Autumn Care Cor" , with the undersi^nriintf it was the only one of the six applicants that proposed to build inside the Isvn. Two applicants had said they would Other E (Continued From Page 1-A j L)r Kugene Waliin and Thomas Dixie. Other Business In a related matter, the board asked iitdlui Ditevtot Torn Blum to find out if the public assembly building at the county complex would be available for the Jan. !6 hearing slated by Cardinal to liear proposals from the six nursing home applicants. The meeting, originally planned in the Bolivia area, was relocated to 1 p.m. at Southport City ilail when it was learned the complex was booked and that a fee would be charged to use Bolivia School Chris Chappell, hoarH ft/ riommlccinruiee /.koi?o.,r said Monday the assembly building was now available, but by then notices on the I waring had already > *? m nun ivoa 14 Wide 3 BR. a ai r. uniy A !STY? $10,999 WALKER MOBILE HOMES ? .. UMMOOUnn 654-4128 Call Tommie I I ^ # Ilotte Board Care.and administrator of Autumn Care of Drexel. "Community support will be a strong determining factor," Suddreth said as he urged the board to mobilize local support for the project. "If Shallotte wants it in Shallotte, Shallotte has got to go up there and say it That may make it too political, but that's a fact of life. "From what we hear," Suddreth continued, "all the suppott is coining from Supply. Supply's got themselves organized. The hospital's been doing some organizing," a reference to the Brunswick Hospital governing board's endorsement of Beverly Enterprises proposai iu build a nursing home and senior villas complex adjacent tc the hospital in Supply. An group nf about 20 citizens told county commissioners at a recent meeting they want the nursing home located near the hospital. Suddreth said Autumn Care wants to build in Shallotte because it is the hub of the Lockwood Folly-ShallotteWaccamaw area where most of the county's growing elderly population is iocaied. According to the 1980 census, he said, -to perront of county residents !ory|p l-lQ^rinn ii it.> i iwvji ivj The change of location was a matter of logistics and cost, he said, noting that the county health department handled the arrangements. The public assembly building at the county complex was not available on that date. To use Bolivia Elementary School as first planned would have invcSvcd paysiient of ho hourly fc*, while there is no charge for use of the Southport facility. Also, members of the evaluation committee that will conduct the hearitthaven Plan build "near" the town if approved. Urittliaven is seeking state approval to build a KiG-bed combination nursing anu rest honte on N.C. ISO just suuih of shnllotle at an estimated cost of $2.08 million, The project would include retirement apartments and a cluipcl. I If approved, Ms. Matthews said the i firm would want the site annexed so that the facility could tap on to the town water and sewer systems. Thursday will be the first time a company spokesman has met with anyone from the town, Ilcwctt said Tuesday. Autumn's proposed project would be located in town, will: an estimated project cost of $1 79 nullion. business gone out to Cardinal hoard members and inedm in a 15-county area. Health board members also directed the environmental health staff to draft local private well legislation, choosing a "barebones" approach of two alternatives orf'tii'flii'fl Thf nrdinanra '<! dress construction standards, site location standards and permitting procedures After approving it, the health board will recommend the ordinance to county commissioners for their adoption. Slate law allows counties to adopt a local ordinance regulating well placement, but this county has never done so. Further discussion of a nome nrailii cafe issued brought up at the board's November meeting was tabled for the present B3HP ZJ ? -www, Shollotte C located Across :hiibHIUI*n 11 | n i J Endorses In aye S5 and nldpr livpH in fhic a*-ao. estimates that figure may have increased to 50 percent. Mayor Beamon Hewett spoke for the board when lie told Suddreth, "I totally agree with what you say. It should be in Shallotte." Autumn Care proposes to build a 33,000 square foot facility on one of two Shallotte sites on which it holds options. One at the corners of Mu'ferry and White streets iies completely within the town limits, the other on River Road lips almost entirely outside town limits. Both are eligible for town sewer and water service, a factor Suddreth said was important. Autumn Care would build 50 skilled nursing beds, 50 intermediate care beds and 10 home for the aged (rest homel beds in a "state-of-the art" $17.5 million facility In the shape of a innkoH ivhnnl .Vlunnnrf enm.ir,,, common areas would be boused in the center, with bed wings extending from the side. It would have an estimated payroll of $40,000 every two weeks, Suddreth said, and would hire the equivalent of 70 to SO full-time c!!ip!oyiM>s c** 2s many as 100 to 110 full- and part-time workers. Training would be coorPplrv~n+or! Tr* I X Vtf \y vvt x> w ing come from across the agency's 15-county service area. Smith said die meeting needed to be held where members could obtain meals and possibly lodging. He estimated the meeting could last until 9 p.m. or later. The committee is scheduled to complete its -eview of the proposals that night and possibly make a recommendation to Cardinal's board of directors. Cardinal is the health planning agency for 15 southeastern North Carolina counties. The conunittee's recommendation can be either supported or overturned by the full board of directors, which meets Jan. in i .vtniwvi iu!? iu ttui on inc Brunswick County nursing home proposals. In either case, the board's recommendation is forwarded to the *_ L! _L I iL. tl I -J ? >*JSiV. wuii-ii iiimm:.- use tnuii unihiini on what firm or firms receive a certificate of need. A slate moratorium on nursing home construction llftoil on July sparked a flood of applications to the N.C. Division of Facility Services for certificates of need. At present six companies are seeking approval of Brunswick County projects thai ranee frnin exnansion of an existing facility to an extended retirement community: Triad Medical Services wants to expand its existing lOft-bed Ocean Trails Convalescent Center in Southporl, the county's only nursing home, by adding to skilled and 16 intermediate care beds. Britthaven Inc of Hookcrton, N.C., wants to build a 130-bcd facility on six acres just outside Shallotte on N.C. 130, including 70 skilled, 30 intermediate and 30 rest tioiiu- beds. It would offer respite care and longrange plans include retirement apartments and an adult day activity program. Autumn Care Corp. of Rocky Mount, N.C., wants to build 00 skillo/j Jjfi |fitvr!!l?d!:it" nrtj np^l IA r??of home foe<ls on either of two locatioas inside .Shallotte town limits, with the option of providing day care and respite service if interest warrants Health Care and Retirement Corp. of America proposes to build 100 skilled and intermediate and .10 rest home beds somewhere in the Shallotte area Beverly Enterprises of llockville, Md . proposes to provide 50 skilled and 50 intermediate care beds on a tract it has optioned adjoining Brunswick Hospital, using the hospital's water and sewer systems. The nursing home would be part of a , Hwy. 17 N. M aSm - :inmi ^ / O rl lti JL m From Ruts Ford ^ bnaan paau WBHBI {wwwn vw^mr fltX? II ^Vi [i f JKVi . LJiI*< Ml11 A'K* B Itbr i-Town Nurs dinated with Brunswick Technical ] College, he indicated. < Autumn Care has 10 nursing j homes, six in North Carolina and four in thp tiHpwflt?*r enrtinn r*f Vlrainia White Investments, in which R.D. (Deedy) White III is a principal, owns both tracts optioned by Autumn Care. In December the Shallotte Planning Board recommended to the town the a portion of the Mulberry Street tract?which town officials thought wnc zoned R-10 ' residential^ be rezoned commercial, but only if the nursing home was to be built there. But Mayor Hewett, checking with iuwii aumiiey mason Anderson, found that couldn't be done-and he also found out it didn't need to be done. While the town cannot zone by contract?for a specitic type of development?it turns out that according to a zoning map adopted earlier by the town board, the area in question was already zoned commercial. Previously, at the planning board's recommendation the town had decided to zone a 200-foot area on each side of 'hii' section Mulberry St**eet commercial in recognition of the mixed development along the street. ^ns i+hnAri WVW W i "continuum of care" concept that aiso includes 32 senior apartments with residential or home health care and respite care. The Brunswick Group and Unifour Medical Management Inc. of Hickory propose a joint continuouscare venture on 20 to 40 acres along U.S. 17 in the Bolivia -Shallotte area. The project would combine a Unifour-operated nursing center composed of 44 skilled or intermediate care beds and 40 rest home beds with u complete retirement community tentatively called Cypress Springs that would ultimately offer apartments, cottages or villas for another 150 persons. Cardinal could recommend issuance of either one or two certificates of need. If Ocean Trail is recommended then Cypress Snrir.ss could be also and vice versa, since together they propose to build no more than loo long term (skilled or Intermediate) care beda ihit In uH other instances, only one applicant could be favored because each propases to build the full quota of nursing home beds. The slate has identified a need for 100 lonuterm nursing beds in Brunswick County and will issue a rertificate of need to one or two companies to provide those beds. Without the certificate o nursing home cannot lie licensed and cannot qualify for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. At the public hearing time will la? allotted to hear proposals from each of the firms and also to hear those speaking on behalf of a specific proposal and from the public at large, Smith indicated. After the hearing the evaluation committee will move into its review session. The agency's staff will present its analysis of the projects and a recommendation "most likely favoring one home," said Smith. f'/ ntfniiion rr?/?r>tu.e? til Hoi In tn.ititn.i nut question the staff and both stHff and the committee can ask questions of the applicants and the public. | 'B 1 NOV I ?l? j 1 w ? | Downtown THE BRUNSWICK BEACON, Than >ing Home P But when the map was drawn, a A 100-foot swath on each side of the adv street was colored in as commercial, ing it was approved as drawn. mei ' 'What it presents is this: if we stay as L with the 400 feet we don't need to PP7nno it " o*nloinn/l ....... vnpmuivM urc uuiyui . BgH Given a choice of repeating the Res earlier steps in approving the map R (including seeking a planning boaru rail recommendation and holding a new dev public hearing) or letting the map pie stand as is. aldermen chase the lat- dev ter. ori I Calendar C Thursday, Jan. 10 REGISTRATION DEADLINE for a first Brunswick Technical College and cout Sunset Beach Fire Department, 7 p.m. N r MARINE FISHERIES public hearing county complex in Bolivia, 7:30 p.m. BRUNSWICK COUNTY COMMISSIONF.il Library Board of Trustees meet jointl; p.m. Friday, Jan. 11 f.AMF NlftUT nt ... . u> uiv nilivi I vol I lAT^IUII Dim U.S. 17, 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12 GAME NIGHT at the Calabash Volunteer ! Monday, Jan. 14 OCEAN ISI.E BEACH COMMISSIONERS CALABASH TOWN COUNCIL meets at tow ing on proposed satellite annexation, 4:1 HOI DEN BEACH SENIOR CITIZENS met Department, 7:30 p.m. BRUNSWICK COUNTY RESOURCES I meets at the commission office at the go p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 15 CIASSKS ItEGIN for a first n'srvm<U,r <NUI Eire Department, 7 p.m. RED CROSS BLOODMOB1LE in the lobby ting blood donations from 11 a.m. to 4:3 Wednesday, Jan. 16 BRUNSWICK TOA8TMASTER-S, CUIB S Ke.sUiurant, Southport, 7 a.tn.-O a.m. ( drew.s, 278-9578 or 845-2203. CALABASH CHAPTER 3640 of the Amcrlc will hold a meeting for officers, dire Calalmsh Volunteer Eire Department, 1 BHUNSWICK COUNTY ASSOCIATION F \L'nrlru}>n?> ?? PamhI ?i ? - ... Mtnivn vuuiltj IVIIV Stephnnna Tewey .speaking on "Child A Management." From 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., i LiTTLE RIVER WA1 Water Ptirificati Sales & S< Jb\ 0 0 Hwy. 17 i Little Rivei j (803) 24? A OWNERS: W.J. (Sonn 1 Sally R. Bol 96 9 SALi V IN PROGRI fter-inventon ?arance Sal 15-50% OFF rvi r\ e -f fn I! J? ? f I V/ I f 9 f inter clothinc %m4 DEPARTMENT STORE Shollotte 754 I ;day, January 18, 1585?rage 3-A Ian I lderman Bobby Ray Russ first ocated taking it back to the plannboard, but remaining board nbers persuaded him to leave it s. We won't get it rezoncd that away in," noted Aldermen Paul Wayne ives. esidents of the area had earlier seu objections to proposed elopment of an apartment comic on the site, prompting elopers to seek another location I.V. lOV. >f Events respoiiuel Course spoiisOreu uy ity emergency medical services. i di the public assembly building. IS aiul Brunswick County Public y in commissioners' chambers, 7 I id inn one ir ilc soutn of Sha'dcitc >?i I 'ire Department, Calabash, 8 p.m. meet at town hall, 4 p.m. n hall for a scheduled public henrSO p.m. :t at the Tri-Bcaeh Volunteer Fire DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION '/eminent complex in Boliviu, 7:80 r?i? ut the Sunset Bench Volunteer of the Brunswick Hospital, acccp0 p.m. 095 meets at I he Ship's Chandler uests welcome. Cidl Donald Allan Association of Ketircd Persons ctors, and conuiiltlue members, 0 a.m. or Education of YounK Children her's Center, Bolivia, with Ms. ,buse: The Hole of the Teacher In >pon to the public. ? | ppn ?? ' ! EH LMi! ELLfcK^ on Systems jrvice Distilled Water 50$ a gallon (w/container) South r. S.C. >-2354 y) Bollamy, Jr. larny I le [ i > s & I
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