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April 27, 2001/Iyar 4, 5761, Vol. 53, No.30
Kivel starts design for new facility
LEISAH NAMM
Assistant Editor
Kivel Campus of Care is moving forward with its plans to relocate to 56th Street and Bell Road in Phoenix, said Ira Shulman, who replaced Matthew Luger in March as the center's executive director.
The new facility will offer an assisted-living facility, an Alzheimer's unit, a care center facility and a kosher dining hall. The independent apartments will remain at Kivel's current location at 3020 N. 36th St., Phoenix.
The land for the new location was purchased in 1999 and the process has moved from the planning stage to the design stage, Shulman said. Shulman, along with department heads and the board of directors, are now meeting with the architect-consulting firm OWP & P to design the facility. He proposed that the building would be complete in three years.
The new building is projected to hold 125 residents in the care center. The current building houses 190 residents.
"We don't anticipate any loss of current employees," Shulman said.
Shulman has 25 years of experience as an executive in the health field and was formerly a hospital administrator in New York at the Brooklyn Children's Center and the Bronx Psychiatric Center.
Shulman said his priority is to improve current resident care and safety programs.
He has lived in Arizona for two years with his wife, Jill, and two daughters, Samantha and Thea, who attend The King David School.
"Kivel is a wonderful place and I'm really looking forward to building its future," he said.
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