Keene Nursing Facility Under New Ownership

Langdon Place of Keene, a senior living facility located on Arch Street. (Hannah Schroeder/Sentinel Staff)

A Keene skilled nursing and senior living facility is under new, NH-based ownership.

Langdon Place of Keene is one of eight centers statewide recently acquired by 603Healthcare, according to a September news release from the company. Sean Stevenson, whom the company says is a lifelong New Hampshire resident with 27 years of experience in post-acute care operations and a bachelor’s degree in health management and policy from the University of New Hampshire, is the owner, lead operator and CEO. 

"Langdon Place of Keene has already earned an excellent reputation," Stevenson said in an email Tuesday. "We plan to enhance services for our customers in any way we can and continuously support our center caregivers."

Stevenson said the company is the new operating tenant leasing the facility. Langdon Place of Keene Ltd. Partnership has owned the property at 136 Arch St. since it was built 1994, according to city property records, which list a Dallas mailing address for that company.

Langdon Place of Keene had previously been owned by Genesis Healthcare, Inc., which also runs several area nursing homes including Keene Center on Court Street, Applewood Rehabilitation Center in Winchester and Pheasant Wood Center in Peterborough, among nearly 200 facilities in 17 states, according to its website. The Pennsylvania-based Genesis could not immediately be reached Tuesday to confirm the sale, but Langdon Place of Keene is no longer listed on an online directory of Genesis locations.

Stevenson, who holds a master’s in business education from Southern New Hampshire University, previously worked for Genesis for 10 years, including four years as senior vice president of operations, according to documents filed with the state health department.

"We have a tremendous opportunity and responsibility to collaborate with our local healthcare providers and to be a trusted partner in the continuum of care," he said. "We have already conducted customer listening sessions as part of our assessment and identification of improvement opportunities but also what is already working well."

Langdon Place has 97 Assisted Living Apartments, including 24 dedicated studios for memory support, Stevenson said, along with 25 short-term skilled nursing beds that have been federally approved to accept Medicare and Medicaid, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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