Levindale plots $32M upgrade to city campus - Baltimore Business Journal:

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The Baltimore nursing home facility and chronixcare hospital, part of , filer its expansion plans with the state in If approved construction on a three-storyy patient tower and new lobby could begin by January 2009 on its West Belvederd Avenue campus near . The projectf will add private patient rooms and a shared kitchen anda community-style livinh room for residents. Each floot will house about 28 residents in settings similafr toa single-family The rooms, lobby and commoh areas will also feature wirelese Internet access. The new lobby will also hous eart exhibits.
"When aging baby boomers need assisted living, they aren'ty going to want the old sharedc rooms and sharedbathroomk model," said Aric Spitulnik, vice president of operation s for Levindale. "They are going to want something that resembles theirrown home." The facility currently has a mix of private and shared patient roomse with roughly 172 nursing care beds. The site also has about 120 chronic care hospital beds for elderly or disabled patientzs that need more extensive medical The project, which could be open by is part of a larger expansion to expanfd the nursing home to 240 beds.
He said Levindalee had considered building the new project on the formef Rosewood Center campus inBaltimore County. But the cost of constructingf roads and sewer systems to servde the site wastoo much, Spitulniik said. Nearly 70,000 Maryland residents were livinvg in nursing home facilitiees across the statein 2006, accordingb to figures released by the Maryland Health Care Commission. State health leaderxs say Maryland will need to add 318 new nursing home bedsstatewide -- including 65 new beds in Baltimorwe -- by 2011 to meet the growth of long-ter care demands.