Benjamin Healthcare Center

When the Suffolk Superior Court ruled to install a receivership at the Edgar P. Benjamin Healthcare Center in April 2024, following a closure plan and allegations of financial mismanagement, it was a moment of celebration for a community eager to keep the almost century-old nursing home open and running.

New reports from the receiver at the Edgar P. Benjamin Healthcare Center cast doubt on the center’s ability to continue long-term operations in its current form.

Even as summer temperatures beat down, for the about 70 residents of the Edgar Benjamin Healthcare Center on Mission Hill, Christmas is coming.

A question haunted the month-long fight for the Edgar Benjamin Healthcare Center that ended recently with the ousting of the center’s administrator: Would the Mission Hill facility be able to continue operations even as the center’s leadership claimed that it needed to shutter due to financial challenges?

For Delicia Mark, stepping into the administrator’s role at the Edgar P. Benjamin Healthcare Center on Mission Hill is a homecoming.

State and city elected officials gathered outside the Edgar P. Benjamin Healthcare Center in Mission Hill last Friday to call for the state to take over the facility and launch an investigation of its leadership.