Following a carefully pre-arranged plan of logistics, 132 aged and chronically ill men and women were moved today from the old Daughters of Israel Pleasant Valley Home, in this city, to a new, $2,500, 000 institution located in suburban West Orange.
The institutions entire professional staff, supplemented by a doubled staff of nurses, was aided in the transfer by volunteers, 32 rescue squads from five communities in northern New Jersey, and by the police departments of Newark, South Orange and West Orange. By the end of the day, all of the institution’s 132 patients were comfortably installed in the new 162-bed facility occupying a 17-acre site. The old home, opened in 1907, was closed when the transfer had been completed.
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