County leaders expect to pick up discussions where they left off earlier in year with prospective buyers for Atchison Senior Village, the county long-term care facility. Commissioners have publicly entertained the possibility of selling Senior Village since November 2015. On Oct. 24, 2017, commissioners publicly announced their intentions to sell the county-owned facility. It was Nov. 1, 2017, when commissioners took the facility off the market for a 60-day period and entered exclusive negotiations with Recover-Care. Since then the exclusion period lapsed and negotiations ceased. Senior Village has been owned and operated by the county since 1961. When the county put the facility on the sale block it housed 52 residents. Seventy-four employees were employed there. The facility gained skilled nursing status in 2014. Medicaid certification was gained in 1989. The facility is located at 1419 North Sixth Street.
Throughout the past few years, the commissioners have sought public input on the matter as well as how to best utilize proceeds from a possible sale.
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