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Family member urges preserving Island Home skilled nursing facility
Summary
Sally Ann Austin testified during public comment that the Island Home provides essential skilled nursing and in-house medical care for dementia patients and warned that its closure would force residents to move off-island, causing financial and social upheaval.
Sally Ann Austin, 19 Surfside, said the Island Home is a skilled nursing facility whose loss would force families to move off-island and separate loved ones.
Austin, who said she has been the hairdresser at the Island Home for seven years and that her mother is a resident, told the meeting the facility provides secure care for people with advanced dementia and other conditions. "This is a skilled nursing facility," she said, adding that "my mother has later stage dementia, Alzheimer's" and that at a…
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