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Northampton County names Michelle Morton Gracedale administrator as facility reports rising census and staffing focus
Summary
The Human Services Committee introduced Michelle Morton as the new administrator of Gracedale nursing home and reviewed February operations including census growth, staffing metrics, infection and weight-loss monitoring, and delays to a planned daycare opening tied to a township inspection.
Michelle Morton was introduced April 3 as the new administrator of Gracedale, Northampton County’s county-run nursing home, and committee members heard a monthly operational update that showed the facility’s census rising and staff focusing on retention, quality and efficiency.
The presentation to the Northampton County Human Services Committee emphasized succession planning and the county’s goal to keep Gracedale a county-operated nursing home. “This place is great. Yes. there's, you know, issues,” Morton said during her introduction, describing a 40-year career in long-term care and noting previous experience supervising a 180‑bed facility in Phoenixville.
County staff presenting the March report (covering February data) told the committee Gracedale’s average census for February was 463 and rose to about 482 earlier in the week, with a…
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