Jewish Home Lifecare recently began welcoming residents to University Avenue Assisted Living, a new program on the organization’s five-acre Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Campus in the Bronx, New York. Specifically available to low-income seniors in the borough, University Avenue Assisted Living is one of the first facilities of its kind in the Bronx that is also Medicaid-eligible. The brand-new, five-story building was funded by a $26 million grant from the New York State Department of Health’s Health Care Efficiency and Affordability Law (HEAL) program.
University Avenue Assisted Living has 72 studio apartments, each with a kitchenette, private bathroom, resident-controlled heating and air-conditioning, and an emergency response system. Amenities and services in the new facility include a large dining room where residents can enjoy three daily meals, a recreation/activity room with a host of programs, a medical suite for nursing and physician services, social service assistance, medication management, personal care assistance, and light housekeeping. The urban environment allows easy access to shopping, public transportation, and community services; the building itself has 24-hour security.
Jewish Home Lifecare has served New Yorkers of all faiths and ethnicities for 166 years. Currently, the provider serves 12,000 seniors annually in their own homes and in post-acute and long-term residences on three campuses in the Bronx, Manhattan, and Westchester. On the Bronx campus, University Avenue Assisted Living joins Jewish Home Lifecare’s 744-bed long-term nursing care and short-term rehabilitation facility that also offers special memory care programs, an independent living residence, three HUD 202 residences for low-income seniors, an adult day care center, and a hemodialysis center.
