Bringing more than 200 new skilled jobs to the area, Carespring Health Care Management will break ground on its new transitional care facility in Cold Spring on Monday. Governor Steve Beshear will join State Representative Dennis Keene, Judge-Executive Steve Pendery, other elected officials and business representatives at the ground-breaking.
Opening during the fall of 2014, the $24 million project will include a 143-bed transitional care facility located on seven acres just off the AA Highway and U.S. 27 in Cold Spring. The new community will specialize in short term rehabilitative care and long term nursing care and will include a combination of private rooms and shared suites. The building will also house activity, dining and exercise facilities as well as a Starbucks that is standard with all of Carespring’s health care facilities.
In keeping with the Carespring project name tradition, the new facility will be known as Coldspring Transitional Care Center.
“We are very excited about this new facility. Carespring is recognized for providing excellent communities and care to our residents and we will provide our Coldspring residents with an exemplary experience, “ said Barry Bortz, CEO Carespring Health Care Management.
Carespring acquired the beds for the Campbell County facility when the Lakeside Nursing Home closed in 2006. That property is currently owned by Northern Kentucky University and is used for dormitories. “We are excited to bring these beds back into service for Campbell County at our new Coldspring facility,” Bortz said.
The Cold Spring facility will employ more than 200 full-time workers and house at least 143 residents in a brand new, state-of-the-art complex.
Carespring is an independent, locally-run, assisted and independent living organization with 10 facilities throughout the southwest Ohio and Northern Kentucky. Its services include nursing care, rehabilitation, respite care, assisted and independent living, hospice and Alzheimer’s care. Coldspring will be the third Carespring development in the Northern Kentucky area. The company currently has had facilities operating in Erlanger and Ft. Thomas for twenty years and employs over 400 people. The company is hopeful that they will develop a facility in Boone County in the near future.
Source: news release
Photo: rendering of new care facility/provided