| $25 million medical complex planned north of Red Lodge
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - A $25 million medical campus planned north of Red Lodge would combine a hospital, clinic and long-term care facilities in "a new model for rural health care," organizers announced.Red Lodge's Beartooth Hospital and Health Center, Billings Clinic and St. John's Lutheran Ministries announced plans for the complex in a press conference Thursday."We really are forming a new model for rural health care," said Linda Harris, chairwoman of the Beartooth Hospital and Health Center board of directors.The project will replace Red Lodge's aging critical-access hospital and its nursing home, as well as relocate Billings Clinic's Red Lodge Clinic.Ground could be broken as soon as spring 2008, with completion scheduled for 18 months later.Five buildings are to be built on about 13 acres adjacent to Highway 212 just outside Red Lodge.
SENIOR HOUSING: Affordable, and what a view! Squantum Gardens readies for first tenant
QUINCY - The notion of building a seaside apartment complex for seniors on an abandoned Naval community in North Quincy first emerged a decade ago as little more than wishful thinking.For Kathy Brandli, who was just entering her 50s at the time, the concept of affordable senior living hadn't even crossed her mind.Ten years later, Squantum Gardens' twin apartment buildings now loom over Wollaston Beach, nearly finished. And Brandli, whose perspective has evolved as gradually as the project, will be the community's first official tenant when the first building opens next month.My life has changed in the past four years,'' Brandli said. I'm down to one paycheck instead of two, and I'm looking at my senior years by myself.''Middle- to low-income seniors like Brandli are the market Squantum Gardens has targeted leading up to its opening, anticipated for March 1.
$14 million senior housing project slated
Sunwest Management Inc., a Salem, Ore., senior-housing management company with holdings in 25 states, has submitted site plans to the city of Post Falls for a proposed $14 million senior-housing complex. The development would include a two-story, 43,000-square-foot assisted-living facility, 32 independent-living units included in seven four-unit structures and two duplexes, and a 4,300-square-foot common building, says Steven Bae, a project manager for Sunwest. We will probably employ about 30 people when we open, but that number could jump to as high as 80 as our census picks up, says Bae. We anticipate it will take about two years after we open to get the buildings filled up. The complex, to be called The River Pines Senior Living Community, would be constructed on about 8 acres of land just southeast of the intersection of Cecil Road and 12th Avenue, says Bae.
South Africa: Most Children Living On the Edge
More than half of South Africa's children are in households that struggle to survive each month, in the continent's wealthiest country, according to the findings of a new report. They are part of families earning less than a US$1 a day, derived mainly from social grants provided by the state, according to the findings of the 'South African Child Gauge 2006', produced by the Children's Institute (CI) at the University of Cape Town. .
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