KC Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare closes
By Kathy Feist
Kansas City Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare, a skilled nursing home located at Blue Ridge Blvd and Wornall Rd, has closed its doors, leaving 155 full-time residents seeking new homes.
Residents were notified July 7 of the decision, made by the owner Centers Care and its management team Mission Health.
Mission Health released a statement regarding the decision to close.
“After extensive discussions with Centers ownership and the Mission Health management team about local market conditions, the decision was made to sell the property at Kansas City Center,” reads the statement.
“Over the last couple months, we have been in the process of closing this community. This decision was a difficult one, but necessary. When combined with financial challenges related to the market conditions of the area and shrinking healthcare reimbursement, it has become impossible to provide the standard of care that we expect for our residents.”
“Employees at Kansas City Center were notified, as their lives were unfortunately impacted by this situation. Despite the unavoidable reality of what had to happen, Mission Health is extremely proud of the commitment our staff has demonstrated in caring for our residents as we transitioned them into new homes. Kansas City Center remained open until each of our residents were properly relocated.”
The statement goes on to read that Mission Health worked closely with the State of Missouri and other healthcare providers to ensure all residents found alternative care and that 200 staff found new employment opportunities. Many transitioned to the Centers Overland Park, KS community.
In the past four years, the rehabilitation center has been under four different ownerships and received numerous healthcare citations and penalties from Nursing Home Compare, a division of Medicare. In January, a portion of a ceiling had collapsed. A residential apartment complex behind the rehabilitation facility had partially reopened a couple of years ago under the ownership of Serenity.
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Kansas City Center was never under management by four different companies as the article states. I interned and volunteered at Kansas City Center for two years in the HR department including when it ran under the name ‘Serenity’. It never traded hands or sold. We always had the same corporate office based out of New York and reported to the same people. Only the name changed and we got a new regional administrater. It was also the same owner on the previous names before that including Brook Chateau and Brook Operations. Previous lawsuits against Kansas City Center also included the facility’s previous names after the owners tried to claim they hadn’t been the owners for the past four years. The New York corporate office was unsuccessful in denying ownership leading back 6 years prior to 2019.
You are absolutely correct! I began my journey in that building when it was the AMAZING Corner Brook Place, owned by the most amazing owner Mr. Robert Redmond…..when he sold it to “Brook Operations” our new owners were Mosher and Aaron……then they walked in and said they “sold” us to Howard……at that time after MANY wonderful years in that building, it was time for me to leave…..crooked doesn’t even come close to how it was ran, and our happy little home became one of “those” facilities…….under the care of Kim, Brian, and Mr.R we were unstoppable ❤ Lord I miss those days 😔