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Foley nursing home sale stalls in committee

Three of the John J. Foley Skilled Nursing

Photo credit: Bill Davis | Three of the John J. Foley Skilled Nursing Facility's 195 patients were moved to other long-term care centers in Suffolk on March 28, 2013.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone's controversial plan to sell the John J. Foley nursing home failed to make it out of the legislature's health committee Thursday, forcing the administration to seek a special petition to get it before the full legislature next week.

The five-member committee includes two staunch opponents of the sale and one who must abstain on the matter because his...

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