Pebble Partner Project Descriptions
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Sitrin Health Care Center
New Hartford, NY
www.sitrin.com

Sitrin is the first long-term care provider to join the Pebble Project. Plans are to replace its existing 173-bed residential health care facility with individual homes that will accommodate 10 to 12 adults in each residence. These modestly-sized dwellings will give way to customized care to match each resident's needs and circumstances and will provide a nurturing, home-like setting, promoting social interaction among its inhabitants.

In 1997, Sitrin opened a 24,000 sq. ft. comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facility (CORF), which is unique to its area. At that time, Sitrin added a comprehensive medical inpatient rehabilitation unit and replaced 40 of its skilled nursing beds with short-term medical rehabilitation beds.

Realizing the needs of individuals with physical limitations, Sitrin offers a variety of wheelchair sports and activities through its RecNet (Recreational Network) Program that include curling, road racing, snow skiing, basketball, billiards, and golf, as well as an adaptive paddling program for canoeing enthusiasts. Sitrin's wheelchair curling team is only one of two teams that are established in the United States. As part of its overall multi-phase expansion, Sitrin will centralize on one campus a complete array of rehabilitation services for its residents and patients. With the RecNet concept and its plans for an adaptive community, Sitrin will become a major training center for the international Paralympic games. It will be the only training facility of its kind for people with physical handicaps in the Northeast.

For its Pebble Project, Sitrin is planning to measure satisfaction data on facility design, food/meals, nursing care, physician care, and staff care. No architecture firm has been selected yet.