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McCready Foundation Building a Healthy Community One Person at a Time
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Skilled Nursing
Introduction
Construction update
Tawes Groundbreaking
Alice B. Tawes Nursing Home
Growing to Serve Seniors

Growing to serve seniors

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Alice Byrd TawesMcCready expanded its health care services in 1968 when it opened a nursing home and named it in memory of a beloved local resident, Alice Byrd Tawes. Mrs. Tawes was the mother of late Maryland Gov. J. Millard Tawes. That single-story structure will be replaced in 2010 by the new Alice B. Tawes Nursing & Rehabilitation Center. Construction currently is underway.

Why replace the nursing home? After four decades, it became apparent the original building was too small, too cramped and just too old by current nursing home standards. The original 69-bed facility also needs additional skilled nursing beds. Patients need -- and deserve -- larger rooms as well as modern dining and recreational areas. The staff needs more office space, more storage space and more room to work. A new $12½ million, four-story structure with a waterfront view of the Little Annemessex River will fill those needs.

Mrs. Tawes’ great-grandson, Crisfield entrepreneur Jay Tawes, is working with fellow civic leaders, dedicated staff members and community residents in a campaign to raise $1 million that will go toward construction of the new nursing. The rest of the construction financing is a combination of local, state and federal loans, gifts and grants plus several million dollars of McCready Foundation funds. The Rural Development office of the federal Department of Agriculture played an instrumental role in providing a low-interest $6 million loan and guaranteed a bank loan for an additional $4 million. When ready for occupancy in 2010, it will accommodate 76 nursing home patients, plus an additional 30 Assisted Living residents who will live on the top floor.

The first story will be connected – as is the original nursing home – with McCready Hospital so patients, residents and the staff can travel back and forth easily. This floor will contain a reception area, dining facilities, administrative offices and several large spaces for McCready and community meetings and social events.

The second and third floors will accommodate 76 skilled nursing beds in private and semi-private room settings. The top floor will be the Assisted Living center featuring dining and leisure spaces, and large enough to accommodate 30 residents in single- and double-bed room configurations.

The McCready Foundation is in the home stretch of raising $1 million for the capital building campaign. A little under $65,000 is needed to reach its goal. We encourage you to help. For more information, please go to "Ways to Give.".


The current Tawes nursing facility ...
  • admitted its first patient in 1968.
  • was named in honor of the mother of the late former Governor J. Millard Tawes.
  • can accommodate 69 residents – all in a single-story building adjacent to Edward W. McCready Memorial Hospital.
  • overlooks Daugherty Creek, a tidal tributary of the Little Annemessex River. A short distance across the creek from the McCready-Tawes healthcare campus is Janes Island State Park.
The new Tawes nursing and rehabilitation center will ... 
  • be a 70,300-square-foot, four-story structure with dining on each floor.
  • be in the shadow of the current nursing home, which will be demolished when the new building opens in early 2010.
  • be home to 76 residents who require skilled nursing care. They will live on the second and third floors of the building.
  • feature 30 Assisted Living units on the top floor, an expansion of health care options at McCready.
  • feature seven different configurations to meet a variety of assisted-living needs.
  • offer panoramic views of Daugherty Creek to the west and “Hospital Cove” to the east flanking the McCready-Tawes property also known as Cork Point.
  • have space on the ground floor for resident activities, administrative offices and meeting space.

And best of all ... no two sunsets over the Chesapeake Bay are the same.