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This section deals exclusively with Massachusetts independent and assisted living at New Horizons in Woburn, MA. Information about assisted living in Marlborough, MA is in the previous section. Above, New Horizons' residents and staff gather at a community fall road race sponsored by New Horizons and Woburn Police Department. |
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Assisted Living in Boston New Horizons Massachusetts retirement community has a total of 120 housing units with 124 seniors, plus Choate Medical Center in Woburn, MA. This upscale MA retirement community includes 64 suites for independent living seniors and 30 assisted living units. In addition, there are apartments for 26 seniors in the Hearthstone Alzheimer's Care Center, and there is the 50,000 square foot Choate Medical Center on the ground floor, occupied by Woburn Medical Associates, Bournewood-Caulfield Counseling Center, Winchester Hospital Collection Station, Woburn Nephrology, Winchester Spine center, Orthopaedics Plus, Woburn Dialysis Center, Hearthstone Alzheimer corporate offices, and Teddy Bear University.
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Following the closure of Woburn's 150,000 square foot Choate Memorial Hospital in November 1989, Cummings Foundation New Horizons, Inc. was incorporated on January 4, 1990. The goal was to acquire the hospital property and create a major corporate philanthropic presence for Cummings Properties, LLC in the community where the firm had its beginnings and earliest successes. At present, 64 of New Horizons' 73 staff members are local Woburn residents. The rendering above is of the original hospital around 1906. |
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The actual purchase of the former hospital property occurred through U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Boston, on January 5, 1990, when the late Judge Harold Lavien awarded the property to the new corporation, a subsidiary of what was then Cummings Properties Foundation. The total purchase price was $3,110,020. The city of Woburn then granted New Horizons a Special Permit to convert the hospital into a not-for-profit assisted living community, by a 7-2 vote of the Woburn City Council on February 6, 1990. Next, the corporation was approved by the Internal Revenue Service as a tax exempt private operating foundation on April 27, 1990. With contributions from the Foundation and Cummings Properties totaling $1.1 million, New Horizons initially received almost $4 million in unsecured loans from two local banks to complete the reconstruction. |
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New Horizons at Choate welcomed its first residents in August 1990. With all loans since fully paid off, the community has a net worth today of more than $17.5 million, while the combined net worth of New Horizons and Cummings Foundation is now more than $600 million. |
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Now operating as New Horizons at Choate, LLC, the corporation is a 501(c)(3) operating foundation with a 12-member volunteer board of trustees. In 1998, it was determined that the board's elected chairman, vice chair, and clerk would serve for indefinite terms, while up to nine other members typically serve three-year terms, with three trustees rotating off each year. |
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Located near historic Horn Pond in a neighborhood of traditional Victorian homes, New Horizons assisted living is a short distance from local shopping, banks and churches, and only minutes from Routes 128, I-93 and downtown Boston. |
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New Horizons MA Retirement Community offers both independent living and assisted living near Boston. As a not-for-profit residence, its rates are considerably lower than those of most similar top-tier communities. This is particularly so also because New Horizons assisted living centers have enjoyed substantial financial backing from Cummings Foundation, Inc., and substantial personal involvement by the Cummings family. |
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Inclusive monthly fees run up to about $2,800 for independent living. An additional $1,582 monthly for the assisted living program includes up to 90 minutes of personal care services daily by Winchester Hospital certified home health aides. Both programs include full accommodations, utilities, all meals, light housekeeping services, 24-hour front desk service, comprehensive recreational and activities programs, scheduled transportation for outings aboard our own minibus, and much more. |
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In keeping eith the poperty's longstanding legacy of serving the immediate local community, applications for residency in New Horizons at Choate are presently being accepted only from current or former residents of Woburn and Winchester, MA, or from prospective residents who have immediate family members in either of these communities. At New Horizons in Marlborough, a much larger and more expansive facility, there presently are no such geographic residency requirements, and there is currently no waiting list due to the more sizeable campus. |
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A full program of recreational and cultural activities offers residents opportunities to do the things they enjoy, or try new ventures in the spacious recreation lounges. Many outings to Boston and other areas are planned, and courtesy transportation is available to local shopping areas and churches. |
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All New Horizons independent suites have their own mini-kitchenette. There are many libraries, sitting areas and lounges (both indoors and out), and a varied schedule of appropriate activities. New Horizons' own air-conditioned minibus provides free transportation for scheduled shopping trips and community activities. |
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in our "Baldwin Suites" assisted living program receive convenient
added services, including help with daily activities, self-administered
medication management, meal and trip escorts, and more, by Winchester
Home Care, an affiliate of nationally acclaimed Winchester Hospital.
Baldwin Suites residents (only) currently pay an additional fee of $1,582
per month for Winchester Home Care's convenient services, which is the
same fee charged to New Horizons by Winchester Hospital. |
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Other residents (in the independent
living suites) who prefer assistance on a less frequent schedule, may
arrange for services directly with Winchester Hospital Home Care, or
with any provider of their choice.
Similar in principle to New Horizons' assisted living program, the on-site independently-owned and managed Hearthstone program accommodates up to 26 additional residents for the care and treatment of seniors living with Alzheimer's and other dementia. |
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New Horizons at Choate also owns and operates the adjacent Choate Medical Center. Residents may conveniently contract directly with any of the many on-site health care practices, including Woburn Medical Associates (a 10-physician, internal medicine practice), Davita Dialysis Center, Bournewood Hospital Counseling Center, Psychological Care Associates, Woburn Nephrology, Winchester Spine Center, Northeast Foot Specialists, and Orthopaedics Plus, a major physical therapy provider also affiliated with Winchester Hospital. In addition, a full-service dental office is located directly across the street from New Horizons at 26 Warren Avenue.
In addition to sharing a name, the two New Horizons communities also share much information and considerable buying power. They are in different geographic markets, and are not perceived as competitive in any way. Choate Medical Center offers on-site medical care for New Horizons and for the entire greater Woburn community. A group of Winchester Hospital internists and primary care physicians runs Woburn Medical Associates, while elsewhere in the center another affiliate of Winchester Hospital - Orthopaedics Plus - offers physical therapy services. Bournwood Hospital has on-site mental health counselors in its facility, while Woburn Dialysis Clinic runs a very busy 18-bed dialysis center here.
New Horizons at Choate's executive director is Rob Nigro (781-932-8000). Nigro graduated from University of Pennsylvania in 1989, with a degree in Social Psychology. He is a major in the U.S. Army Reserve, having served on active duty as an intelligence officer, foreign civil affairs liaison, and general's aide-de-camp in the U.S., Germany, Iceland, and Guatemala. Most recently, his role at New Horizons was interrupted to serve a 16-month tour of active Army duty with U.S. Forces Command, ending in May 2004. Nigro has been with the Cummings organization since 1994, when he began duty as associate executive director of New Horizons at Marlborough. He is a charter trustee of Cummings Foundation and has administered its scholarship programs, including the McKeown Scholars Program, since their inception in 1996. Nigro has been a volunteer instructor for Junior Achievement since 1998, and an active volunteer with Big Brothers of Massachusetts Bay since 2000.
The associate executive director of New
Horizons at Choate is Burlington resident Jed Geyerhahn. A 1996 graduate
of Fordham University, with a degree in philosophy, Geyerhahn has extensive
management and operations experience with the Cummings organization since
1997, including seven years as a leasing and property manager at Cummings
Properties. He joined the management team of New Horizons at Choate in
2004. |
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Massachusetts Senior Living Boston Independent Senior Apartment Living Massachusetts retirement living near BostonConsider The Meadows apartments for Boston area seniors. This large MA retirement community is a charter member of MassALFA - Massachusetts Assisted Living Facilities Association. The Meadows offers easy access and is on the same campus as New Horizons independent and assisted living residence in Marlborough, MA. Other Mass Alfa Independent and Assisted Living Communities for Seniors Central Massachusetts Greater Boston North of Boston
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