Sunshine Manor employs about 80 staff members, most of whom Cross says will keep their jobs. The proceeds of the sale will go to improving the two other facilities, Sunshine Meadows and Sunshine Village.Ĭross said once the sale is final he will assume operations on Oct. "It breaks the heart of a lot of the board members." "The people no one else would take in, we would take them," said Bumbray, who has served on the board for more than 30 years. But he is not entirely happy about having to give it up. The sale will be "a load off my mind," Bumbray said. Floyd Sunshine Manor's board of directors, works full-time to help manage the three facilities, in addition to caring for his wife, who is chronically ill.
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Only about 60 of their 101 beds were full until Harmony Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center was ordered to close by the state last month and some of those patients relocated. The nursing home's most recent tax filings show their revenue dropped by over a million dollars, from $7.4 million in 2009 to $6.4 million in 2010. "Nursing homes have become so specialized, it's hard for people not in the business to keep them profitable anymore," Cross said. The Great Recession has not helped, either. It no longer caters exclusively to black patients and operators have since opened two adjacent facilities for assisted and independent living.īut a changing nursing landscape has made it difficult for nonprofits around the country to run nursing homes competitively.
Floyd Sunshine Manor, originally called Old Folk Aid Home, has changed with the times. An appraisal paid for by the city valued the 3-acre property at $790,000. The Sarasota City Commission is set to vote on the potential sale Monday. Sunshine Manor wants the the city to sell it the land, so it in turn can sell land and building to Cross. The land is owned by Sarasota, which has been leasing it to Sunshine Manor for $1 a year. There is a possible hitch to the sale, however. It has an impeccable history and it's doing what it's supposed to do." "We're losing a piece of a legacy and a piece of the identity of the community," said Sarasota city commissioner Willie Shaw, who was born and raised in Newtown and can remember the struggle to raise money to open the facility. While they acknowledge the 101-bed nursing home needs help to become financially solvent again, the sale will be bittersweet for some Newtown residents.
Cross promises to replace the roof, buy new medical equipment and hire dozens of new employees. Cross of Quality Group, Inc., says he will make the facility even better than it already is. Floyd Sunshine Manor has been just that - a trusted place for members of Sarasota's black community to go when they became too ill or infirm to care for themselves.īut the nonprofit nursing home has since fallen on hard economic times and is set to be sold to a private company later this month. It arose out of bake sales, church donations and a strong desire to have a nursing home Newtown could call its own.
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