Lutheran Services for Aging to build 100-bed facility in Wilmington

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Salisbury-based Lutheran Services for the Aging has received permission from the state to build a 100-bed nursing home in Wilmington.

The health-care provider went up against eight other organizations that filed Certificate of Need applications to build in New Hanover County.

The state's decision came Nov. 27, but competing organizations had 30 days to appeal. No appeals were filed.

Ted W. Goins Jr., president of Lutheran Services for the Aging, said, "We are thrilled to announce that our Certificate of Need application had been approved and equally pleased to see that we can begin to move forward. We have worked long and hard to establish services in the Wilmington area. This is very good news for LSA, for the people there who have supported our efforts and for the residents who will be served."

Lutheran Services for the Aging was the only faith-based not-for-profit organization to apply. The state's approval will bring New Hanover County its first faith-based nursing facility.

LSA operates nursing homes in Salisbury, Albemarle, Hickory and Winston-Salem. It also has retirement communities in Arden and Salisbury, and an adult day-care program in Salisbury.

The Wilmington addition will boost LSA's total of senior living units to 1,134. LSA is ranked 64th among the 100 largest not-for-profit providers of aging services in the United States.

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