Long-term care facility Lima Manor will close later this year.
Craig J. Orosz | The Lima News
LIMA — Long-term care facility Lima Manor will close later this year, as its parent company HCF Management consolidates services amid a decline in residents in Allen County skilled nursing facilities, the company confirmed via press release Monday.
“This was an extremely difficult decision due to the wonderfully loyal and dedicated staff and caregivers at Lima Manor, the residents that have made it home and HCF’s history and legacy in the Lima area,” Kerri Romes, president of HCF Management, said in a statement.
The company described the closure as a “strategic decision” to “right-size operations,” citing the decline in skilled nursing facility residents, availability of open beds in nearby HCF-owned facilities and anticipated investments needed to keep Lima Manor competitive.
HCF Management, a skilled nursing company based in Lima, manages dozens of nursing homes and assisted living communities in Ohio and Pennsylvania, including Shawnee Manor, Roselawn Manor and Burton’s Ridge in the Lima area.
Residents and staff will have the option to transfer to other HCF-owned facilities like Shawnee Manor, and meetings are already underway to assist in the transition, the company said.
HCF did not provide an exact timeline for when Lima Manor will close, though the closure is anticipated later this year.
The closure comes as thousands of caregivers have left the long-term care industry amid the coronavirus pandemic, worsening a staffing crisis in the nation’s nursing homes.
A recent survey from the American Health Care Association, a trade group representing long-term care facilities across the U.S., found that nearly half of assisted living providers said they may have to close if caregiver shortages continued, even after a majority of providers surveyed said they had increased wages in response to the staffing crisis.
One-third of providers surveyed said they were operating at a loss.
The AHCA estimates more than 200,000 nursing home workers have left the industry since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
