Family was paying $15,000 a month for care at the Rosa Coplon Living Center
Family was paying $15,000 a month for care at the Rosa Coplon Living Center
As of right now the Weinberg Campus is set to close its doors in November.
The clock is ticking for the future of a local nursing home — slated to close one month from now.
One local executive expects more nursing home closures
One local executive expects more nursing home closures
The union representing employees at Weinberg Campus says there’s a glimmer of hope that the facility can stay open now that Weinberg’s CEO has signed off on a receivership plan to the Lineage Group.
Robert Mayer, the CEO of Weinberg Campus, signed off on the Lineage Care Group getting receivership of the Rosa Coplon Living Center, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East announced in a release Wednesday.
After the New York State Department of Health informed officials at the Weinberg Campus and 1199SEIU employees that they plan to close the Rosa Coplon nursing home at the end of November, employees, families and local officials said they will fight to try to keep that from happening.
How was this allowed to happen? A nursing facility that has been serving Western New York’s elderly since 1916 is expected to shut down by the end of this month – displacing more than 120 residents and putting more than 300 employees out of work in the process.
Employees and family members rallied outside of the New York State Department of Health Office in Buffalo on Tuesday to protest the closure of the Weinberg Campus.
The pending closure of the Rosa Coplon Living Center nursing home is also likely to affect other programs on campus, and across the region.
“Save Weinberg” was the message that rang out during a picket outside of the New York State Department of Health regional office in Downtown Buffalo on Tuesday.
Employees, family members of residents and concerned citizens held a protest Wednesday at the Department of Health’s office.
Family members of residents, union employees, elected leaders and others picketed Tuesday in front of the New York State Department of Health offices on Main Street in downtown Buffalo.
Residents’ families, employees demand NYS DOH take action as Rosa Coplon nursing home closure looms
Congressman Tim Kennedy, NYS Senator Sean Ryan, NYS Assemblymember Karen McMahon, City of Buffalo Mayor Chris Scanlon, residents, and family members call on NYS Department of Health to approve receivership.
1199SEIU members at Weinberg Campus react to NYS Dept of Health closure announcement
Darlene Gates, organizer for 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East at Weinberg Campus, talks about the plan to close Rosa Coplon nursing home. The signs in recent weeks had been pointing toward the imminent financial collapse of the Rosa Coplon nursing home on Weinberg Campus in Amherst.
A nursing home in Amherst will close by the end of November, officials confirmed to WIVB News 4 on Thursday.
In a letter to residents obtained by 7 News, Weinberg Campus announced plans to close the Rosa Coplon Living Center in Getzville.
The move now displaces 140 residents and leaves 300 employees without a job.
The Weinberg Campus has continued to face financial issues, with caregivers paychecks bouncing as recent as Oct. 18.
The senior living campus has been struggling financially. The closure will affect more than 100 nursing home residents.
A nursing home in Amherst will close by the end of November, officials confirmed to WIVB News 4 on Thursday.
A nursing home in Amherst will close by the end of November, officials confirmed to WIVB News 4 on Thursday.
The longtime board president of Weinberg Campus has resigned as the nonprofit senior living campus waits for assistance from the state and approvals on a new operator.
Employees calling for change in leadership at Weinberg Campus after paychecks bounced.
Weinberg Campus workers and union organizers are pushing for new leadership after they said the current one is partially to blame for the current financial situation.
1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers East-represented Nursing Home Workers employed at one of the lastnon-profit facilities in Western New York averted a two-day Strike earlier this year, but today (Wednesday, October 10th) they hit the picket line over lack of retroactive pay, unpaid wage increases, unpaid benefits and poor leadership at the facility in Suburban Buffalo.
Weinburg Campus, a longtime nursing home and senior care complex in Amhurst, could be on the brink of financial collapse, which would affect hundreds of employees and residents and send ripples through Western New York’s health care system.
Nursing home workers, represented by 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, picketed outside Weinberg Campus on Oct. 9, 2024, over unpaid wages and benefits.
Another lawsuit has been filed against Weinberg Campus, as additional debtors get in line for unpaid services at the troubled Getzville nursing home.
The leaders of a Getzville nursing home campus are worried about its future in the face of millions of dollars in unpaid debts and court judgments that, it says, are tied directly to a failed acquisition effort.
(GETZVILLE, NEW YORK) – More than 300 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU)-represented Weinberg Campus Nursing Home Workers in Suburban Buffalo are set to hold an informational picket on Wednesday (October 9th) over a lack ofretroactive pay, unpaid benefits and poor leadership at the non-profit facility in Getzville.
Three hundred 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East members had planned to strike for two days starting Wednesday at the Weinberg Campus in Getzville to demand new leadership at the struggling senior nursing facility, but a tentative agreement was reached Tuesday morning averting the strike.
Nursing home workers at a Getzville facility plan to go on strike next week over a number of grievances, including unpaid benefits, low wages and inadequate staffing levels.
Unionized Nursing Home Workers at one of the last non-profit facilities in Western New York plan to hold a two-day Strike beginning Wednesday, July 31st to protest a poorly managed facility, unpaid benefits, low wages, and inadequate staffing levels.