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Suffolk moving toward closure of Foley nursing home

Originally published: May 11, 2013 8:01 PM
Updated: May 11, 2013 8:46 PM
By PAUL LAROCCO  paul.larocco@newsday.com

John J. Foley Nursing home in Yaphank. (April

Photo credit: James Carbone | John J. Foley Nursing home in Yaphank. (April 9, 2013)

Suffolk County is steadily moving toward closure of the John J. Foley Skilled Nursing Facility, with floors being emptied of patients and employees beginning to be laid off.

County Executive Steve Bellone is targeting June 30 for transferring the last patients to other long-term care centers, which would allow remaining staff to be cut and for Suffolk's nursing home operating license to be...

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