New facility to offer care for Alzheimer's patients

By Steve Herring
Published in News on November 8, 2011 1:46 PM

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Executive director of Countryside Village Tracy Smith, right, talks to Nellie Fuller about Ms. Fuller's new room in the memory care facility in Pikeville. It is being converted from an assisted living facility.

PIKEVILLE -- A $325,000 construction project to convert the former Countryside Assisted Living facility into Wayne County's only free-standing Alzheimer's community is expected to be completed by Thanksgiving, with residents possibly moving in by Christmas. Renamed Countryside Village, plans include...