Evansville Assisted Living Facility Nears Opening

Evansville Assisted Living Facility Nears Opening

Same ... that is -- as along as cases stay down and warrick county continues getting vaccinated.

Live in newburgh, claire dugan.

44news.

A transition-- interrupted-- when plans went into motion to transform this hotel into an assisted living facility-- covid hit-- the pandemic pausing the project-- but now it's bringing a once empty building-- back to life.... we take a look at a project that is changing the landscape along 41 in evansville that's where we find 44 news reporter valerie lyons with tonight's top story... out with the old -- "changing all the rooms into apartments, updating all the bathrooms."

In with the new -- last january -- the iconic airport holiday inn in evansville closed down -- more than a year later -- the building is close to reopening -- "365 days a year 24/7 we have 72 degrees tropical paradise.

We have a pool.

We have a spa.

We have a gym."

As one of the tri- state's most innovative assisted living facilities -- "we have a family app that every resident that lives here can identify one person, a daughter or son, and they can get daily updates through our app."

You'd think converting this 160 thousand square foot hotel into senior housing during the pandemic -- would have been a difficult task -- but luckily -- the project only hit a small roadblock -- "they kind of wanted to get everything started in january of last year, because of the pandemic and lack of supplies, manpower, they really didn't get started on some of the projects until june of last year ."

It's not hard to see what makes melrose so special -- but as with every assisted living facility -- safety is top priority -- and staff say they're prepared every guideline and protocol necessary to set it above the rest -- "this atrium is 20,000 square feet.

We're not going to have any problem social distancing in a community like this."

Sixteen of the former hotel's staff have stayed on -- but melrose is still looking to hire more registered and licensed practical nurses before opening day -- "we'll be staffed accordingly based upon the needs of individual residents.

We'll be offering three different levels of care so one person may require a little more assistance as opposed to another person."

And though covid-19 delayed the project a few months -- melrose assisted living will soon be opening its doors -- "we are open for tours and open for any type of reservation if they would like to move in and when we do open the doors they can have first available apartments."

In evansville -- vl44news.

A chilly day across the tri- state- hopefully warming up for a chilly day across the tri-