Hallworth House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center To Close, Citing Financial Losses From COVID-19

Hallworth House Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, a nursing home center based in Rhode Island, announced plans to close in late August 2020 as a result of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) public health emergency. The center, a 57-bed nonprofit skilled nursing facility that opened in 1958, filed a plan with the Rhode Island Department of Health to stop operations.

According to Patricia Nolan, M.D., MPH, chair of the Hallworth House board, the facility had lost more than $1.3 million in the last two years while maintaining high standards of care, but the COVID-19 pandemic has . . .