BALLSTON SPA January 29  –-   As of last Sunday Maplewood Manor nursing home in Ballston Spa is known as the Saratoga Center for Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Care.  Zenith Care Health of Westchester County is the new owner, as Saratoga County  joins a veritable cavalcade of New York State municipal nursing homes that have had to be privatized in recent years.

   Civil Service Employee Association employees at Maplewood twice in recent days,  once by a wide margin and by two votes in a  re- vote requested by the membership on Monday, January 26, voted down a contract offer from Zenith, chosen to be eventual  purchaser of the facility in late 2013.

Read the entire article in the Feb. 5th issue of the Express.