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Eddy Cohoes ‘green houses’ innovative design for seniors
COHOES — Sixteen ranch-style houses on the Eddy Cohoes Campus are slated to open in October as the region’s first Green House community — an innovative concept pioneered in Mississippi that de-institutionalizes the current model of elder care.
Groundbreaking for the project took place Tuesday morning at 421 Columbia Street.
The Eddy’s Green House model is one of about 16 operating nationwide and the first to be announced in this state, said Jo-Ann Costantino, chief executive officer of the Eddy, an affiliate of Northeast Health.
Developers drawn to condo projects
Condominiums continue to serve as the Capital Region construction industry’s shining star, offsetting weaker demand for traditional homes, according to a recently released report.
As baby boomers near retirement age, area developers have spent the past two years putting up condos at an increasingly frenetic pace. By the end of 2007, the region had a base inventory of 1,006 condos, with most of them being in Albany, Cohoes and Saratoga Springs.
Eddy's $41M project takes seniors out of institutions, into 'Green Houses'
The Eddy is ready to spend $41 million to turn its Cohoes campus into a neighborhood of ranch-style homes.
The nonprofit entity, the senior care division of Troy-based Northeast Health, has applied to the state Health Department for permission to replace its Eddy-Ford Nursing Home and the nursing home section of the Eddy Cohoes Rehabilitation Center with a new form of long-term care. The "Green House" model replaces institutional life with residences that look and feel like private homes and stress dignity and autonomy.