Alice Dewitz is a resident of Golden Manor, a nursing home in Steele. By the middle of next year, Golden Manor will be a basic care and assisted living facility.

Medcenter One leases Golden Manor, a 50-bed nursing home in Kidder County. About six months ago, Medcenter officials started talking to the Golden Manor Inc. board about changing the use of the facility because of a workforce shortage and need for nursing home beds in the Bismarck-Mandan area.

“Change is hard for people,” said Medcenter One CEO Jim Cooper. “This is the only way to keep it viable.”

Medcenter notified families about the pending change and held a standing-room-only meeting for family and residents earlier this month.

“Anger” was Dorlyn Hoffman’s response to how he first felt when he read the letter from Medcenter One.

“Disbelief,” said Nadine Hoffman, his wife.

Dorlyn Hoffman’s father, Peter Hoffman, will need to move to another nursing home. Again. As his Alzheimer’s progressed, he’s gone from living at home to an apartment to an assisted living facility to a basic care facility to a skilled nursing facility in Napoleon and finally Golden Manor in Steele.

“When we moved him to Golden Manor, we thought it would be for the rest of his life,” Dorlyn Hoffman said. “Each move is difficult.”

Bismarck Tribune – Local News – Golden Manor changing.

This is absolutely stupid. Why would you want to take a great place like this and move it to Bismarck? You think that they wil be able to find help at teh rates they are paying in a smaller town such as Steele?

Steele has been a retirement community for years. There will be no shortage of people that will need a facility like this in years to come in the Kidder county area.

Plain *** stupid. Way to go Medcenter One.