Jewish Home’s new Lilac Grove apartments are officially open in Brighton—adding 90 rental units for active adults 62 and older as demand for senior housing grows in Monroe County.

Kathleen Biggs, a certified recreation therapist and certified dementia practitioner in the memory care unit at Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, discusses the creative, engaging, and fun activities Gurwin is using to improve residents' cognitive health and social connections in a new interview with U.S. News & World Report.

A new article in The New York Times spotlights RiverSpring Living’s Golden Dreams program, a program created to help residents fulfill lifelong wishes, rediscover passions, and experience moments they may have once thought were out of reach.

As part of National Skilled Nursing Care Week, Coler Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center and Open Doors NYC co-hosted a Food Stories exhibition featuring storytelling from nursing home residents accompanied by large-scale visual works by artist and community organizer Kevin Nakagawa.

Nurses, therapists, aides, and family members lined the halls clapping and cheering on May 11^th as 74-year-old Roseann Iavarone made her way through Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center smiling through tears after a recovery doctors believed she might never make.

Jewish Home welcomes the first residents of Lilac Grove, as construction concludes on the 90-unit apartment complex for older adults ages 62 and older.

2026 was a banner year for Peconic Landing’s annual John May Mile and 5K fundraiser, which donated a record $30,250 to the Greenport Fire Department on May 9^th.

Mark Sanchez, president and CEO of United Hebrew of New Rochelle, calls on state lawmakers to direct a fair share of Governor Hochul’s proposed $1.5 billion for hospitals and nursing homes to long-term care providers in a new opinion piece in The Journal News.