Foley nursing home enters its final month
Photo credit: Heather Walsh | Kenneth Benkenstein, 66, a former resident of John J. Foley Skilled Nursing Facility, now lives at the Long Island State Veterans Home at Stony Brook University. His wife Joan helps him settle into his new home but says the move has been traumatic for both of them. (April 3, 2013)
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Special video report: Foley nursing home sale
The day many public health advocates thought would never come -- the closure of Suffolk's John J. Foley Skilled Nursing Facility -- now appears to be less than a month away.
County Executive Steve Bellone is targeting June 30 for moving the last remaining patient out of the Yaphank center, bringing an end to a protracted, politically charged battle that has spanned nearly 25 years and four...
