Preparations are underway for the construction of a new sixty-room
\nnursing home on the S\u00f3lvangur estate and the ideas of the municipal authorities in
\nHafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur intends to connect the building to S\u00f3lvang and partially utilise S\u00f3lvang.
\nas a service centre for senior citizens in the municipality. In addition, it is planned
\nfor the addition of twenty nursing places
\nThe Ministry of Welfare is awaiting the local authorities' proposals on the matter.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
In May 2010
\nAn agreement was signed between the Ministry of Welfare and the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur regarding
\nconstruction and participation in the lease of a nursing home for the elderly in the municipality.
\nThe agreement provides for a sixty-bed care home to replace the current one.
\nnursing home at S\u00f3lvang. The construction of the nursing home has been delayed but originally
\nIt was scheduled to be ready in autumn 2012. Following a feasibility study on
\nThe new project management took over the location of the home.
\nto employment in 2015. It was approved in the same year that a new care home would be built on the S\u00f3lvang site.
\nThe decision is in accordance with the policy on matters concerning older people in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur.
\nto the effect that S\u00f3lvangur will be the centre for elderly care services in the municipality. There
\nVarious support services are already in place, which it is important to have in
\nThe surrounding environment of a new nursing home.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
More space and changed use \u2013 the advantages are
\nundisputed<\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Ideas
\nthere have been proposals to use S\u00f3lvangsh\u00fasi\u00f0 as a service centre and that it will include, among other things,.
\nday care for older people, physiotherapy, a canteen, social activities and
\nmore. Consideration has also been given to increasing the number of proposed spaces from
\nsixty to eighty and utilise S\u00f3lvangsh\u00fasi\u00f0, for example, for the twenty spaces that would be available
\nIn addition, today there are fifty-eight.
\nspace at S\u00f3lvang and a new nursing home would only add two new
\nspaces according to current plans. It is clear that there is a great need for more
\nnursing places in the capital region and would this increase meet the demand for them
\nneeds. It has also been shown that operating eighty rooms
\nA nursing home is much more cost-effective than running sixty beds. The advantages are
\nbecause unequivocal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Call on the ministry to change its position<\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
A letter from the Ministry of Welfare at the end of November 2015 states that the ministry does not agree.
\nThat renovations will be carried out on the S\u00f3lvangsh\u00fas in accordance with the proposals.
\nthe municipal authorities in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. The municipal authorities in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur have called on the ministry
\nto reconsider this position and approve both an amendment to
\nthe current premises on S\u00f3lvangsreit and an increase in nursing places from sixty to eighty.
\nA written challenge, which was unanimously approved and signed by all members of the committee.
\nThe project management of the nursing home has been sent to the Minister of Health.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hafinn er undirb\u00faningur a\u00f0 byggingu n\u00fds sext\u00edu r\u00fdma hj\u00fakrunarheimilis \u00e1 S\u00f3lvangsreitnum og eru hugmyndir b\u00e6jaryfirvalda \u00ed Hafnarfir\u00f0i \u00e1 \u00fe\u00e1 lei\u00f0 a\u00f0 tengja bygginguna vi\u00f0 S\u00f3lvang og n\u00fdta S\u00f3lvang a\u00f0 hluta sem \u00fej\u00f3nustumi\u00f0st\u00f6\u00f0 fyrir eldri borgara \u00ed sveitarf\u00e9laginu. A\u00f0 auki er gert r\u00e1\u00f0 fyrir a\u00f0 \u00fear ver\u00f0i tuttugu hj\u00fakrunarr\u00fdmi til vi\u00f0b\u00f3tar fallist velfer\u00f0arr\u00e1\u00f0uneyti \u00e1 till\u00f6gur b\u00e6jaryfirvalda […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12916"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}