Woodridge Celebrates 20 years

This month Woodridge Rehabilitation and Nursing is celebrating 20 years in their facility on the Central Vermont Medical Center campus in Berlin.
CVMC was built in 1968 combining Heaton Hospital in Montpelier and Barre City Hospital. Hospital trustees decide to keep the two old hospital buildings and turn them into nursing homes which became known as Heaton Woods and McFarland House.
Woodridge Nursing Home was built on the CVMC campus to replace the two nursing homes which had operated for more than 20 years in buildings that were decades old themselves. Woodridge opened in 1993 with 153 beds ‘for long’term and not-so-long term care.’
Today Woodridge Rehabilitation and Nursing provides both long-term and short-term care to individuals needing nursing and rehabilitation services. ‘Whether residents are here for short-term or long-term care, our primary goal is always to help them return to as much independence as possible,’ stated Woodridge Administrator Ursula Margazano.
Woodridge was deficiency free in their recent annual state survey. Five surveyors spent two days at Woodridge reviewing their compliance with all licensing rules and regulations. ‘Those of you who are familiar with licensing surveys know that being deficiency-free is remarkable and quite extraordinary,’ noted CVMC President and CEO Judy Tartaglia.
Twenty-five of today’s more than two hundred full and part-time employees have been employed at Woodridge since opening day. Some of the 25 were previously employed at Heaton Woods and McFarland House, moving to Woodridge with the residents.
Source: Woodridge Rehabilitation and Nursing www.cvmc.org/woodridge.