THe Sitrin Story
Beginnings.
In 1951, Hymen Sitrin, his wife Clara, and his sister-in-law Florence purchased a stone house on a quiet wooded hillside. There they established a home for the elderly and infirm, named in honor of Charles T. Sitrin, Hymen's brother and Florence's husband, who had passed away at an early age.
It was the best kind of memorial – one that brings comfort and healing to others. And the seed they planted on a Central New York hillside would soon grow to maturity.
First six, then nine, then thirty residents called Sitrin home. As the need for nursing care grew, Sitrin grew to meet it, adding resources to provide compassionate, personalized care for an increasing number of residents. Soon an entire generation of local people came to know Sitrin as that unique place where their loved ones would be treated like family…a comfortable home-away-from-home those who needed specialized care.
And in providing comfort for one generation, Sitrin comforted the generations that followed.
The First.
By 1992, Sitrin's modern campus was home to more than 170 residents of all faiths and ethnic backgrounds. And as it served an ever-broader community, Sitrin also began to offer services and capabilities never before available in the area.
Driven by visionary leadership and a highly committed board of directors, time and again Sitrin would see an opportunity to make a difference and take it. Other providers would eventually follow its lead, ultimately bringing area families more resources and greater accessibility to care.
In turn, Sitrin introduced:
- The community's first Adult Day Care program
- The area's first aquatic therapy pools
- The region's first Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Facility.
Today there are no less than eight aquatherapy pools in the New Hartford area, at least five Adult Day Care programs, and nearly every area nursing home offers some level of rehabilitation services.
But there's still only one Sitrin.
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