This is where the most-dependent patients are housed. Many can only be fed through tubes. Men and women lie in beds in all manner of contorted positions. Here and there old, wood-framed TV sets flicker. Fans swivel atop dressers.
Rooms seem devoid of emotion.
According to County Supervisor Dianne Jacob, when costs are averaged out over the years, operation of Edgemoor is a break-even venture. There are some years that Edgemoor has contributed more than a million dollars to county coffers. The clock is ticking. Not that Jacob is unsympathetic to the cause. But it s a relatively unknown facility.