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LETHBRIDGE – NURSING HOME TO CLOSE

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Alarmed about plans to close one of Lethbridge’s twonursing homes, family members of its residents arelaunching a petition to save Extendicare.Chinook Health officials say the northside facility,home to 120 frail seniors, will shut next summer.Its operator is expected to open a southside facilitya year later, but officials say it will provide assistedcare for healthier seniors.Current Extendicare residents will be re-assessed,they add, and many of them could be placed in oneof the city’s “designated assisted living” homes.”It’s quite a disaster,” says Ramma Sawhney, daughterof one of the residents. “Everyone is very worried.” Adapted from the Lethbridge Herald