Maintaining Nursing Home Facilities Requires Extra Care and Sensitivity

    ASTORIA, NY, December 03, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Remodeling jobs are messy considering the ladders and tools, the drop cloths, the moving about of furniture, and let's not forget the fumes. This is magnified in a nursing home environment where people live a semi-confined existence. Occasionally contractors come across residents in rooms that refuse entry, others are bedridden and attached to respiratory equipment, then you have the heavy wheelchair mobility and healthcare personnel moving about in the corridors. Level Line Construction specializes in nursing home maintenance services and is an expert in tackling everyday challenges. To ensure the safety and security of all residents, careful planning, managing, and close coordination with the facilities director is required at all times.

Healthcare facilities require a different approach than typical commercial environments. Offices, retail, and multi-unit residential settings typically do not operate 24 hours a day and maintenance work can be done off-hours. There are no off-hours in a healthcare facility. Management can't simply empty a section or ask people to go home for the day. A plan is devised to temporarily move each resident, protect furniture and belongings, and complete the work in each room all in the same day. Construction workers move very quickly and can be in and out of a resident's room during a regular activities period. Despite all of these deterrents, the work area is safeguarded and measures are taken to fully complete the work.

"We are proud of our highly trained staff and our continuing efforts in assisting the healthcare industry better manage their facilities to benefit the residents they serve," said Andreas Georgiou, President of Level Line Construction.

The bottom line is being able to remodel occupied healthcare facilities and achieve outstanding results with minimum disruptions to the residents and staff. The key is having an experienced contractor that has a strong history of working within the confines of a complex nursing home situation. Management and employees need to have the experience, ability, and sensitivity that's required to work in such unique and challenging environments. To complete the work successfully steady communication between all parties throughout the project needs to be maintained.

"Much attention is devoted to questioning the baby boomer's ability to retire at a reasonable age with a comfortable lifestyle. Our question is, are the world's skilled nursing home facilities environmentally ready to take in a rapidly aging world population? Depending on who you talk to, you'll get mixed answers. Our experience tells us that a nursing home will not be clean, safe or environmentally friendly unless a continuous, solid, and effective maintenance plan is in place and is heavily enforced," said Elias Kotsias, Director of Business Development & Marketing at Level Line Construction.

About Level Line Construction Group, Inc.

Level Line Construction provides well managed maintenance services 24 hours a day to healthcare, nursing home, and assisted living facilities. Level Line's expertise helps the healthcare industry with daunting and complicated construction maintenance projects. They identify areas in need of repair, create a plan, and issue progress indications within their daily reports. The company is based in New York and also specializes in high-end residential, corporate interiors, institutional, entertainment, education, hotels, motels, pharmaceuticals, multi-unit residential/commercial, retail, and e-Technologies.

Level Line Construction is currently working with ArchCare's Kateri Residence Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation. The company is providing general maintenance construction services to approximately 335 Resident's Rooms, 156 Bathrooms, and Corridors throughout 14 floors. Phase one of the project required replacing roughly 5000 square feet of vinyl rock ceiling panels and painting concrete floors throughout the commercial kitchen. The kitchen work was performed during nighttime hours from 9pm to 4am.

For additional information regarding Level Line Construction please visit website at www.LevelLineConstructionGroup.com or call 212-537-6050.

About Kateri Residence Skilled Nursing

Kateri Residence Skilled Nursing is a not-for-profit 520 bed skilled nursing and rehabilitation center located in Manhattan's upper west side. Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York assumed responsibility for operating the Home in 1981 and named it in memory of Kateri Tekakwitha, a caring 17th century American Indian who converted to Christianity. In 1980, 300 years after her death, Blessed Kateri was beatified by Pope John Paul II.

Company: Level Line Construction
Contact: Elias Kotsias
Phone: 917-698-5119
Fax: 201-266-0460
Email: [email protected]

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