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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 apartments housing about 125 seniors, plus Choate Medical Center in Woburn, MA. This upscale, award winning retirement community includes 94 suites for seniors, up to 35 of which may receive assisted living services from Winchester Hospital/Homecare, and the balance of which are for independant living seniors. In addition, there are 26 apartments serving the memory impaired in the Hearthstone Alzheimer's Care Center. The 50,000 square foot Choate Medical Center on the ground floor is 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 First Steps Early Learning Center.
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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. About 75 percent of New Horizons' 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 additional contributions from the Foundation and Cummings Properties totaling several million dollars, New Horizons initially received 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 almost $800 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 retirement community 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 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 average about $2,300 for independent living. An additional $1,673 monthly for the assisted living program includes up to 90 minutes of personal care services daily by Winchester Hospital certified home health aides. All residents pay a 100 percent refundable $50,000 Entrance Fee and furnish a guaranty from a suitable individual, usually a family member, prior to moving in. 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 with the property'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, Winchester, and Medford, MA, or from prospective residents who have immediate family members in 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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 Residents
in our "Baldwin Suites" assisted living program receive convenient
added services, including help with daily activities, self-administered
medication management, access to on-site home care aide assistance 24
hours per day, seven days per week, 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 $1,673 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 those living with Alzheimer's and other dementias. |
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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 five-physician, internal medicine practice), Woburn Davita Dialysis Center, Bournewood Hospital Counseling Center, Woburn Nephrology, Winchester Hospital Specimen Collection Station, Winchester Spine Center, 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.
Besides 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. Bournewood Hospital has on-site mental health counselors in its facility, while Woburn Davita Dialysis Clinic runs a very busy 15-seat dialysis center here.
New Horizons at Choate's executive director
is Burlington resident Jed Geyerhahn (781-932-8000). 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.
The associate executive director of New Horizons at Choate is Paul Kirschbaum. Kirschbaum graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a degree in psychology and earned a Masters of Science in Healthcare Administration, magna cum laude, from Worcester State College. He is a Massachusetts licensed nursing home administrator, and joins the New Horizons organization with several years of administrator experience in both assisted living and nursing home environments. |
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