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Abrupt closure of nursing home left residents scrambling
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Princeton Center Care closed Friday after residents were given hours' notice
Lawmakers, families and advocates are demanding answers from the state, questioning why a financial crisis months in the making was allowed to explode in a matter of less than 24 hours. The New Jersey Long-Term Care Ombudsman said the residents will relocate to 16 facilities across the state.
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Abrupt closure of nursing home left residents scrambling
Clip: 9/6/2023 | 1m 22sVideo has Closed Captions
Lawmakers, families and advocates are demanding answers from the state, questioning why a financial crisis months in the making was allowed to explode in a matter of less than 24 hours. The New Jersey Long-Term Care Ombudsman said the residents will relocate to 16 facilities across the state.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipit's been nearly a week of chaos and anger for families of loved ones living at the Princeton Care Center the nursing home gave its 70 residents just hours notice before shutting down the facility on Friday leaving the seniors and their families scrambling to figure out where to go and what to do next according to the news website Planet Princeton which first reported the story the long-term care home blamed financial troubles for the abrupt closure New Jersey's long-term care Ombudsman says residents were forced to relocate to 16 other facilities spanning the state on the day of the closure reports described residents sitting in wheelchairs outside the center with garbage bags of their belongings on their laps crying and distraught lawmakers families and Advocates are now demanding answers from the state questioning why a financial crisis months in the making was allowed to explode in a less than 24-hour window a attorneys for the nursing home aren't commenting the State Department of Health says it sent a mission critical team to the facility throughout August to prevent such an emergency situation like this from happening
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