For the past year, there has been a lot of scrutiny and focus on the Trinidad State Nursing Home and whether the state should sell it, has the legal authority to sell it, and what selling the nursing home would mean for its residents, employees and the community. A bill that would have required the state to wait until 2011 to sell the Home was killed last week and it appears the state may be moving forward on selling. The following message comes from Marty Hackett, Director of Communications, Trinidad & Las Animas County Chamber of Commerce:

It has been announced that the state could call for closure of the Trinidad Nursing Home as early as tomorrow. Those at the nursing home have asked, and I now do too, for everyone to call the Governor and ask him to delay closure of the nursing home at least until November, 2010.

This delay will allow the nursing home and board, Las Animas County, and perhaps the voters to make decisions about ways to keep the home open past that time.

Call Governor Ritter and ask him to keep the home in Trinidad open for a few more months to give us one last chance to find way to keep the nursing home in Trinidad.
Call him at (303) 866-2471