Athena Care Homes March
Dallas Querry
Located in a quiet residential nook, Aria Court Care Home in March, Cambridgeshire, boasts a cinema, hair salon, multiple dining rooms. Our beautiful gardens provide plenty of space to walk, sit and spend time in the fresh air. The kitchen team at Aria Court are award-winning and have even created their own cookbook full of their best recipes. As one of the leading residential care homes in March, Cambridgeshire, Aria Court offers nothing less than the best care for your loved one in a safe and comfortable environment.
Regular feedback forums give residents and their family members the opportunity to suggest new experiences, outings and events. This ensures that our activities programme is varied, engaging and reflects the choices and interests of our residents.
Aria Court is one of the leading residential, respite, nursing, palliative, and dementia care homes, Cambridgeshire. Our accessible activities programmes promote inclusivity and are continuously adapted and reviewed for the changing needs of our residents. You can view an example activity calendar here.
We work closely with local suppliers to make sure we have the very best quality produce to offer, and our creative kitchen team enjoy using food to offer new experiences and world cuisines to our residents.
Jo, who originally trained as a hairdresser in London, was attracted to working for Athena Care Homes because we are a small, family run company with a vision and values that really mean something to the team.
At Aria Court, we understand the significant threats that infectious diseases can pose to our residents and staff and we have strict infection control measures in place for when these situations occur. We have our own team of Infection Control Champions that ensure our residents can still have safe visits throughout these times. To find out more about how we protect our home, please click here.
Family is at the heart of everything we do, so we work hard to build relationships with every resident and their relatives to help us to learn more about their life story. When joining one of our residential care homes, your family becomes ours and we strive to make sure everyone has a comfortable, happy and fulfilling stay.
Senate President Pro Tem Martin Looney co-sponsored a measure that would require nursing facilities to spend at least 80% of their Medicaid funds on the direct care of residents, including feeding, bathing and dressing, although that bill was amended last week to require a study of the issue. Connecticut nursing homes currently spend 51%.
The proposals raised this year go beyond reforms legislators enacted in 2023, which require providers to submit narrative summaries of profit and loss statements going back three years, total revenue and expenditures, assets, liabilities, short- and long-term debt, and cash flows from investing and financing.
For many of them, rent is one of the largest expenses on the financial records. At some facilities, property owners set up secondary companies that collected rents from nursing home operators, ranging from a high of $8.9 million annually at the Advanced Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation in New Haven to a low of $1,833 at the Reservoir Care and Rehabilitation Center in West Hartford.
The CT Mirror also reviewed administrative fees that each provider claimed on cost reports. Records show that owners at 115 facilities, or about 70% of nursing homes, collected administrative fees, ranging from a high of $2.1 million at the Frances Warde Towers in West Haven to a low of $15,600 at Fairview in Groton.
Lew, whose background as a forensic accountant is in reviving struggling health care companies, was recently named the CEO of Athena, replacing Lawrence Santilli, who will remain president of the nursing home chain he started 40 years ago.
Santilli reported owning at least a 50% share of a pharmaceutical company called Procare LTC that is registered to do business in Farmingdale, N.Y., according to 2022 cost reports filed by Athena for several of its nursing home.
The immediate jeopardy report said the resident had tried to leave the building at least three times prior to the incident on May 19, 2023. A nurse told DPH investigators that on one of the earlier occasions, they went to find a wander guard but none were available. Another nurse said the facility needed to purchase more wander guards.
On May 19 at 1:02 a.m., staff members were unable to locate the resident within the facility. Employees conducted a search in and around the community until the resident was found and brought them back around 1:30 p.m., records show. The report does not indicate where the resident was found, only that it was about a mile from the facility.
The nursing home is one of six owned by Essential Healthcare, whose CEO is Manajem Salamon, according to state records. Overall, Essential Healthcare collected more than $13 million in rent across its facilities in 2022, according to financial reports.
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Financially troubled Athena Health Care Systems has sold five of its Connecticut nursing homes to a former competitor that has agreed to pay back taxes and debts owed to vendors and add $2.6 million to cover unpaid employee health insurance costs.
The five homes that are now owned by National are the Newtown Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, Beacon Brook Health Center in Naugatuck, Montowese Health & Rehabilitation Center in North Haven, Sharon Health Center and Evergreen Health Care Center in Stafford Springs.
The five nursing homes have about 500 residents combined as of the end of May, according to state Department of Social Services data. The homes are at about 67% occupancy, lower than the statewide percentage of 86% occupancy.
Besides Athena, national chains such as Genesis have systematically been selling Connecticut facilities. Matthew Barrett, president and CEO of the Connecticut Association of Health Care Facilities, said seeing National step up to buy some of the struggling Athena homes is a good sign for the industry.
Several employees have contacted The CT Mirror with stories of being unable to pay medical bills and having medical procedures canceled because Athena was behind in paying employee health care claims.
DPH spokesman Christopher Boyle said a key requirement of the sale is the independent nursing consultant, whom National will have to hire for at least a year. The consultant will work 12 to 40 hours per week monitoring nurse staffing levels and quality of care at all five facilities.
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