Thursday, March 14, 2013
Together, St. Luke's Hospital, the Parkway School District and Delmar Gardens account for around 15 percent of the total jobs in the city.
It may be no surprise to followers of national trends, but the most recent data available shows that Chesterfield's top employers are in the health care and education fields. St. Luke's Hospital has topped the list since 2006 and supplies nearly 10 percent of the city's total employment with more than 3,000 employees. While the list includes many familiar faces from year to year, one newcomer is Delmar Gardens, which took the number three spot in 2011, the most recent year for which data is available. The rising employment for the senior care facility follows its growth in recent years across the St. Louis region. The company recently announced a $33 million expansion that includes $5.2 million in renovations at its Chesterfield facility…
Thursday, January 10, 2013
The Chesterfield-based company received approval to convert some of its current units at five of its facilities in Chesterfield and the St. Louis area from a state health commission earlier this week.
Chesterfield-based Delmar Gardens is adding assited-living beds to its current senior housing facilities following a decision by a state health committee to approval the $33 million project. The Missouri Health Facilities Review Committee granted the request at a Jan. 7 meeting. Delmar Gardens had submitted what are called "certificates of need" to add the beds to five of its St. Louis facilities, including the Chesterfield Villas retirement community. The Chesterfield renovations will cost approximately $5.2 million and will add 52 assisted living beds. The four other facilities receiving assited living beds are located in Town and Country, O'Fallon, Florissant, and St. Louis. According to a report in the St. Louis Business Journal, it…
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Grouping patients by medical needs spiked Medicare reimbursement costs by 16 percent and billions of dollars, local business journal said.
An executive at Delmar Gardens is reportedly vowing not to cut staffing at the company's nursing homes in the wake of news that Medicare reimbursements to the company would be slashed by $4.5 million in 2011. The St. Louis Business Journal reports the company received $42 million in 2010 but will only see about $37 million in 2011 due to a decision handed down last week by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. That decision is meant for Skilled Nursing Providers to be paid "more accurately based on the service needs of Medicare beneficiaries in their care," according to a press release from the agency. The statement continued that "the adjustment was determined using claims and assessment data from the first eight months of (fiscal…
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
City council voted Monday to bring a Planning Commission-approved permit to the council for review.
A plan for a senior-living facility in Chesterfield will go up before the Planning and Public Works Committee for review. Chesterfield City Council members voted Monday night to bring the conditional use permit for the plan before the committee via their right of power of review. The city planning commission approved the permit, which proposes an independent-living facility and an assisted living facility on eight acres of land near the Chesterfield Academy child care center and Chesterfield Elementary School, at their May 9 meeting. The permit allows the land to be used for a nursing facility and includes a few specific requirements for the development that wouldn’t be included in zoning regulations. For example, the permit caps the …
