Vineland veterans makes history again. (Front Page).A century ago, the nation's first long term care facility for veterans opened in Vineland, N.J. Now, the country s first assisted living as·sist·ed living n. A living arrangement in which people with special needs, especially older people with disabilities, reside in a facility that provides help with everyday tasks such as bathing, dressing, and taking medication. unit in a state-run veteran's home will appear on the same spot. When completed in spring 2005, the Vineland Veterans Memorial Home will include 240 long term care beds, a 32-bed, special-needs unit and a 28-bed, assisted living wing, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs Veterans Affairs is a term of the business that deals with the relation between a government and its veteran communities, usually administered by the designated government agency. spokesperson G. Natasha Zoe. Groundbreaking on the first phase of the $50.4 million project began in September. The facility is replacing a series of existing hospital buildings and small cottages at the 102-year-old site. The project will be constructed in four phases to allow continued care of residents during the construction, Zoe said. The new facility will be fully in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act Americans with Disabilities Act, U.S. civil-rights law, enacted 1990, that forbids discrimination of various sorts against persons with physical or mental handicaps. , more aesthetically pleasing, improve patient care and staff efficiency, and improve the resident quality of life by increasing individual living space and providing more privacy, according to Joe Romano, Vineland Veterans Memorial Home's chief executive officer. The first residents should move into the home in fall 2003, Zoe said. The original home, an imposing Gothic-style building of brick and sandstone sandstone, sedimentary rock formed by the cementing together of grains of sand. The usual cementing material in sandstone is calcium carbonate, iron oxides, or silica, and the hardness of sandstone varies according to the character of the cementing material; quartz , was constructed in 1868 as a seminary seminary Educational institution, usually for training in theology. In the U.S. the term was formerly also used to refer to institutions of higher learning for women, often teachers' colleges. for the New Jersey Conference of Methodist Churches. On Jan. 2, 1900, the New Jersey Soldiers Home for Disabled Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, and their Wives and Widows--the home's original name--opened its doors in Vineland. The new Veterans Memorial Home's construction is being financed through a partnership between the state of New Jersey and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. New Jersey contributed approximately $17 million; the VA federally funded the balance. |
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