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Jonesport community doing its best to keep nursing home open

Residents say they don't want to leave the place some of them have called home for more than a decade.

JONESPORT (NEWS CENTER Maine) -- On Monday afternoon, Downeast Community Hospital announced they would be closing at the end of August.

But the community, is doing their best to not let that happen.

On Friday afternoon former employees, family members of residents, local politicians and other members of the community went out to Sunrise Care Facility to take a stand.

"We can do this," many of them said.

The "we" is the community.

Employees are heartbroken about the announcement, "we are heartbroken as workers, not because we're losing our job but because they're losing their home." Holly Alley, full-time CNA, said.

As for residents, they don't want to leave the place some of them have called home for more than ten years.

"I'd hate like hell, I really would because it's my home. And I know I have to die somewhere so I might as well die here where I'm happy." Francis Morand said. Morand has been at Sunrise for about ten years.

Selectmen and state reps have reached out to CEO Dennis Welsh and the Downeast Community Hospital Board for a meeting. They do not know when that meeting will be.

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