Residents from insolvent nursing home have to move

Created: 01/05/2023Updated: 01/05/2023 2:36 p.m

The nursing home "Haus am Kirchweg" in Bremen.

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The home supervision in Bremen has to find a new home for almost 90 residents of an insolvent church nursing home at short notice.

After the closure of the house on Kirchweg announced between Christmas and New Year, you have until the end of February to do so, said a spokesman for the Senator for Social Affairs.

Bremen - On Wednesday evening, those affected and their relatives were informed about the possibilities of other accommodations.

It is said that the facilities of the Bremen Home Foundation could accommodate at least 50 old and sick people.

The mother, the Evangelische Diakonieverein Berlin-Zehlendorf, has filed for bankruptcy on behalf of the operator of the home, Leben im Alter gGmbH.

The landlord of the property is the Verein für Innere Mission Bremen, which operated the nursing home itself until spring 2021.

The Hoffnungstaler Stiftung Lobetal, which belongs to the Bodelschwinghsche Anstalten Bethel, presented itself as the new operator before Christmas.

But then she withdrew her offer.

So the "abrupt total closure" had become inevitable, said insolvency administrator Joachim Voigt-Salus.

Such a case had never occurred to him in his practice.

There was always enough time for staff, residents and their families to find new solutions.

"I have never needed home supervision to close a facility," he told the German Press Agency.

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