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Cape End Manor Care Campus
Friday, October 27, 2006 2 p.m. groundbreaking for Seashore Point. On September 19, 2006, New England Deaconess Association's Board of Directors unanimously approved financing for the Seashore Point facility in Provincetown. The groundbreaking ceremony will be held on Friday, October 27, 2006 at 2 p.m. To commemorate this occasion, the Board of Selectmen has voted to proclaim October 27th as "New England Deaconess Association Seashore Point Day" in the Town of Provincetown. Deficiency-free Cape End Manor. On July 1, 2006, the Town of Provincetown transferred a deficiency-free nursing home facility to the New England Deaconess Association. The Cape End Manor Nursing Home again scored no deficiencies in its annual survey by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.. Cape Cod Commission approves Care Campus. On January 12, 2006, the Cape Cod Commission unanimously approved the Town's application for a Project of Community Benefit hardship exemption for the Care Campus. Message from New England Deaconess Association. Read a message to the citizens of Provincetown from Rev. Herb Taylor, President and Chief Executive Officer of the New England Deaconess Association. Interim Management of Cape End Manor begins. New England Deaconess began its interim management of the Town-owned Cape End Manor Nursing Home on July 1, 2005. Read story. The Cape End Manor facility will transfer to New England Deaconess by July 1, 2006, as part of the Care Campus project approved by Town Meeting. Town Meeting voters approve Care Campus. April 4, 2005 Special Town Meeting voters overwhelmingly approved the Cape End Manor Care Campus. A public forum was held on Tuesday, March 15, 2005 at Town Hall. See the presentation.
New England Deaconess Association's proposal for the Cape End Manor Care Campus is the centerpiece of the Town Manager's FY 2006 Budget Message. The funding strategy developed by the Town, and agreed to by NEDA, requires a capital investment of $1.9-million in Community Preservation Act (CPA) funds towards the affordable housing component of the Care Campus—one of the principal goals to be achieved in asking voters to adopt the CPA’s 3% surcharge last year. Land exchange with the Bishop of Fall River approved by October 25, 2005 Special Town Meeting.
In August 2004, the Provincetown Board of Selectmen executed a land exchange and development agreement between the Town of Provincetown and the Roman Catholic Bishop of Fall River that will enable the Cape End Manor nursing home to be expanded as part of a health care campus. The Special Town Meeting held on Monday October 25, 2004 gave initial approvals to this proposed land exchange. At the June 27, 2004 Blessing of the Fleet in Provincetown Bishop Coleman had earlier announced an agreement in principle had been reached. The Town of Provincetown proposes to acquire from the Bishop a 1.24-acre portion of the rear of the St. Peter's Cemetery (see locus map), abutting the Town-owned nursing home at 100 Alden Street. This property houses a storage shed and was not planned for burial purposes. In exchange, the Town of Provincetown proposes to transfer to the Bishop of Fall River the fee ownership in a land area large enough to accommodate forty (40) parking spaces-but not more than 1.24 acres-- of a portion of the Town-owned Grace Hall Parking Lot, which abuts the St. Peter's Church parking lot at 11 Prince Street. The Town would also be responsible for demolishing two cemetery buildings and constructing a replacement structure.
The Care Campus would comprise a total of 2.66 acres-- 1.24 acres from the Bishop, and 1.42 acres of 100 Alden Street- which would house a new state-of-the-art skilled nursing care facility, out-patient rehabilitation therapies, and assisted living to be operated by a mission-driven health care entity of the Town's choosing. Viewed globally, this deal would have great importance to the continuation of Provincetown as year-round community. It would mean as many as 100 year-round jobs for the Care Campus. It would relieve the Town-- ultimately-- of a $1,000,000 per year property tax subsidy of the Manor. It would be providing a continuum of care services that the community and its aging population desperately needs.
Cape End Manor among only 300 of the nation's 16,000 nursing homes that have been deficiency-free since 1999. The Gannett News Service (which owns USA Today) published a report on nursing homes on May 19, 2003 which found that "of 16,437 Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing homes nationwide, just 314 — fewer than 2 percent — have been violation free for the last four years, according to a Gannett News Service analysis of federal inspection and complaint investigation reports." The Cape End Manor is on that very exclusive list of facilities with no violations. See the Manor's rating. Cape End Manor is a licensed 60-bed, Level III, Skilled Nursing Facility owned by the Town of Provincetown. The geographic region served is primarily the Outer Cape, including the Towns of Provincetown, Truro, and Wellfleet. For the past four years, the Cape End Manor has received deficiency-free surveys from the Mass. Department of Public Health. See the Cape End Manor's report card: click for information from DPH. For more information contact: Office of the Administrator, Cape End Manor Nursing Home, 100 Alden Street, Provincetown, MA 02657 (508) 487-7090
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