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HE A LTH • Spring 2022 5 Continued on Page 6 Much More Than Assisted Living – Assisted Life. For Family & Community 555 Plantation Street • Worcester, MA 01605 508-852-5800 Contact us to learn more about the mission-driven, not-for-profit difference at Notre Dame Health Care. Notre Dame du Lac Assisted Living notredame healthcare.org What We Offer: • Spacious and attractive renovated apartments • Personalized and supportive services including our Harmony Memory Care Neighborhood • Custom emergency response system throughout the building and grounds • Quality care in a warm and home- like setting • A majestic chapel with Mass and other spiritual offerings • A robust activity schedule focusing on the whole person Adult Family Care (AFC) supports home-based caregiving for seniors, and adults with disabilities, who are unable to live alone in their own home and need assistance with activities of daily living. AFC caregivers can be a family member or non-relative and provide all the comforts of home, ensuring safety, wellbeing, and socialization. If you would like to become an AFC caregiver, or if you are already caring for a loved one in your home, you may qualify for the Seven Hills Family Services AFC program. To learn more, contact 508.796.1868 or afc@sevenhills.org. 799 West Boylston Street, Suite 2, Worcester, MA 01606 • 508.796.1868 • sevenhills.org ADULT FAMILY CARE Become a Caregiver in Your Own Home has 842 beds combined at its University and Memorial campuses, making it the largest hospital in Central Massachusetts. By rezoning Beaumont to match UMass Memorial's current in-patient designation, the hospital would be able to have more medical beds at Beaumont. The rezoning filing is the first step in the process of converting the space to allow medical-surgical beds. Approval from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health is also required before the property can be used as an inpa- tient, acute-care facility, according to the release. Throughout the COVID-19 pandem- ic, Central Mass. has experienced a shortage of hospital beds. This rezon- ing effort would allow UMass Memorial to address this major health- care need in the region. "The additional inpatient beds will help ease pressure and strain on stretched-thin emergency room staff and resources at all of our hospitals by providing access to a level of care that can only be provided at an inpatient facility," said Dr. Eric Dickson, presi- dent and CEO of UMass Memorial Health. SALMON expanding into home health care SALMON Health and Retirement, a Milford-based senior care provider with locations throughout Massachusetts, is expanding into home health care. SALMON Home Care will offer ser- vices including private care, hospice care, and Visiting Nurse Association services for chronic or temporary care, according to a release Wednesday from the organization. Sheryl Duclos-Zagame will serve as the executive director for the new home care division. She has worked at SALMON since 1992 and most recently served as home health director of clini- cal services. After initial vote found invalid, Worcester Board of Health to vote again on lifting mask mandate The Worcester Board of Health voted on Monday to lift its indoor mask mandate, but because one board member was not yet sworn in, the board did not actually achieve enough votes to approve the measure. Board member Gary Rosen, who voted in favor of rescinding the man- date effective Feb. 18, had not officially taken an oath of office prior to the board's Monday meeting, according to a Friday press release from the City Manager's office. Because of this, the 3-2 vote in favor was actually a tied 2-2 vote, so the measure to rescind the mandate did not receive majority approval. The Board of Health will hold another meeting on Feb. 16 to vote again on a measure to lift the indoor mask requirement. If approved on that date, the measure will still go into effect on Feb. 18. The mask mandate vote is the only item on the Feb. 16 meeting agenda. Rosen was sworn in on Feb. 10. UMass to rezone Beaumont to address hospital bed shortage UMass Memorial Health in Worcester filed a rezoning petition for the former Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center as part of an effort to add acute care medical- surgical beds to the UMass Memorial Medical Center's University campus, according to a Thursday announce- ment. UMass Memorial purchased the Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center property located at 378 Plantation St., adjacent to the UMass Memorial University campus, for $23.5 million in August. Beaumont would add 71 hospital beds to the University campus. UMass Memorial Medical Center currently Health Care Br iefs A local supermarket mandating masks in its store Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center in Worcester

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