Somerset Place officially closes its doors at 5pm, and community and religious leaders will hold a vigil there this evening. Read all about it in Lake Effect News.For more about Somerset's closing, reference the 5009 Sheridan blog.
Update from the Tribune: Friday is the last day for Somerset Place.
Maybe this has already been answered...but does anyone know where these residents are being re-located?
ReplyDeletewtf is a vigil anyway, other than a waste of time
ReplyDeleteVigil? More like Last Rites....
ReplyDeleteFirst - I am not thrilled about how abruptly this has all come about.
ReplyDeleteHaving said that, I do hope that over the much longer term, Somerset's closing will provide the most good for the highest number of people.
What I am extremely curious about in the short term is how the perceived quality of life for the neighborhood at large changes in the short term. I don't live in the immediate area surrounding this facility, but no doubt its closing will impact a lot more than just the relocated residents
(employees, neighbors, family members of patients, surrounding businesses, members of the new communities into which these folks move).
I have to agree with Stash. I highly doubt there was enough time and care taken to place these residents into the most appropriate facilities for their particular needs. It is not the residents' fault the place was managed so poorly but yet it's the residents who are being thrown out like they are worthless. I think the place needed to be shut down but not like this.
ReplyDeleteStupidEnough's question is very much the right question. Where ARE they being relocated? call IDPH and ask. Try it. . . they will evade your question.
ReplyDeleteI really hope they get transferred to a better place and dont end up near the Wilson El.
ReplyDeleteHow about this for an answer to where some of the residents are being relocated?
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If you read the Tribune article, you'll see that O.N.E. held the candlelight vigil. They are upset because the residents of Somerset are being moved out of the neighborhood. Yeah, God forbid they are placed in a safer environment in which they will hopefully receive the care they need.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I will ever under anything about O.N.E. besides the fact that they love nothing more than concentrating poverty.
Miss K -- this explains it:
ReplyDelete"Religious and community leaders are hoping to slow down the expected closure of a troubled North Side nursing home." (ABC news site.)
ONE believes change is bad, bad, bad! Any lessening of the squalor is bad, bad, bad! Keep Uptown frozen in time, and anyone who thinks differently is bad, bad, bad!
For my own curiosity: I've been reading this the last couple of days ... is there any connection?
ReplyDeleteUmmm... Does anyone remember ONE holding a candlelight vigil for the displaced persons who had to move outside the area because the City condemned their huge affordable apartment building at Addison and Halsted to build a new police station? Didn't think so. I guess ONE doesn't really believe in supporting the displacement issue as much as they believe in control via, as in their control over Uptown's mentally ill voters.
ReplyDeleteThere are several local clergypeople involved with ONE. Once upon a time the Catholic pastor of St. Mary's was involved but his replacement does not seem to be interested in the group. In fact I find it interesting that the Catholic clergy that are currently involved with ONE are from St. Gertrude's Church in comparatively upscale Edgewater, rather than St. Mary's or St. Thomas' which serve a more downscale (for the most part) clientele.
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