White Plains , NY — White Plains Healthcare Properties I, LLC and EPIC Healthcare have selected Congress Building Corp. as the construction manager and developer for its 110,000 s/f, 160-bed rehabilitation and skilled nursing facility. The $39 million dollar facility consists of 160 beds of skilled nursing, including 76 specialized rehabilitation beds, 42 Alzheimer’s secure beds, and 42 long-term care beds, each on specially designed nursing units. The project includes structured parking for 52 cars.Both Congress and TAT have strong track records in Rehabilitation, skilled nursing, long-term care, elderly, and health care projects, having previously collaborated successfully on more than twenty such projects. The Operator, EPIC Healthcare, has demonstrated a capacity to provide quality health care in Westchester County and the Hudson Valley region for more than twenty years.
Congress has completed over 8,000 beds and over 4.5 million s/f of Health Care and Long-Term Care construction throughout the eastern United States over the past 45 years. Congress’ recent successfully completed senior living and health care projects include a 74-unit, 86,000 s/f Assisted Living facility in Easton, MA; a 36-bed Assisted Living and Memory Care addition and renovation of an existing Assisted Living and Skilled Nursing facility in Windsor, VT; a 43-bed addition and renovation to an occupied 135-bed Assisted Living facility in Hopkinton, MA; a 180-bed, 105,000 s/f HUD Sub Rehab of an existing Skilled Nursing facility in Milwaukee, WI; a 74-bed, 64,000 s/f Assisted Living and Memory Care facility in Avon, CT; an 80-bed, 68,000 s/f Assisted Living and Memory Care facility in South Windsor, CT; and an 83-bed, 76,000 s/f Assisted Living facility in Ipswich, MA, all for valued repeat clients of Congress.William Nicholson, CEO of Congress, said, “We are excited and proud to have been selected for this one-of-a-kind project. We recently published a white paper speaking to the SNF of the future. This is the SNF of the future. We are honored and grateful to work with EPIC Healthcare, one of the most progressive providers of rehabilitative services and skilled nursing care in the northeast. Lizer Jozefovic, EPIC’s CEO, is a unique visionary. Lizer and his team epitomize the future of rehabilitation and skilled nursing. His quest for quality care and his tireless efforts, attention to every detail, working with our construction and design team toward planning a proactive and vital rehabilitation environment, are among the driving forces behind this project. Our relationship with TAT has been ongoing and successful for over thirty years, and we are delighted to continue that collaboration on this project.” Congress will continue to work with TAT and EPIC in a project team approach which will bring the project though the preconstruction and construction phases. nCongress will provide transparent preconstruction and construction phase scheduling, line item budgeting, value engineering, cost estimating, and life cycle evaluations of alternative building system options.