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Bell House closes

• Oct 29, 2014
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News coverage of the closing of Bell House, a home for adults with physical disabilities. 

'The greatest loss is the community'

GREENSBORO — Room 204, its walls painted Carolina blue, held just cardboard boxes marked “Xmas stuff” and “pictures from sister.”

Room 205, painted bright red, contained only a hospital bed while inside a purple-painted Room 207, blankets sat atop boxes.

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Jeri Rowe: Why Close Bell House?

You can see it from Summit Avenue, this new sign outside Bell House.

It says much in 11 words.

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Jeri Rowe: A big day for Vicky

This is the fifth of an occasional series this month that focuses on the closing of Bell House.

GREENSBORO — Vicky Rhodes was once Doug Rhodes. But really she is Vicky. She tells me that.

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Bell House begins to disappear

I saw a pickup truck out front of Bell House Tuesday with two mattresses in the back.

So it begins. You know why. Bell House will soon be no more. The home for adults with several physical disabilities, a place seen as a national model, will close by Halloween after 35 years of operation.

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Carrie got a tattoo.

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Bell House Sounds of Joy Bell Choir

Bell House: Staff and Residents get Tattoos

The "ABLE'' logo represents the Bell House. It's another example of Bell House trying to keep their spirits up as their last days wind down.

Video: Tattoos cement memories of Bell House

GREENSBORO — At Bell House, they’re beginning their series of firsts and lasts.

I start seeing it this week. I catch up with them in their motorized wheelchairs, maneuvering into a tattoo shop along McGee Street. They want to get a tattoo of the Bell House logo — a figure named Able, in a wheelchair, arms raised — somewhere on their bodies.

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Jeri Rowe: "The Biggest Shame of All"

It was an eight-word email, sent late Friday afternoon last week that got my attention.

It was from Matt Stafford. He wrote:

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Bell House to close

Residents are worried, frustrated and angry over government changes in Medicaid that mean Bell House, the home they've come to love, must close.

Video: Bell House, home to 20 disabled adults in Greensboro, closing

GREENSBORO — Two years ago, Bell House was poised to nearly double the size of its Summit Avenue facility.

On Wednesday, the Greensboro assisted-living center announced that it will close this fall because of federal Medicaid cuts.

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Bell House's demise: A sad end to an uplifting story

The news today that Bell House has been forced to close was both surprising and disheartening.

The nonprofit assisted-living facility off Summit Avenue in northwest Greensboro will close it doors no later than Oct. 31.

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Long-term care home for disabled adults in Greensboro closing

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