Home Care In Blue Bell, PA

Blue Bell, PA, Nov. 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Continuing its growth in the Philadelphia market, SecureSpace is pleased to announce the acquisition of a recently-built property in Blue Bell, PA. SecureSpace previously managed the store on behalf of the Seller.

SecureSpace Blue Bell is a three-story facility located at 1950 Skippack Pike offering 78,097 square feet of climate-controlled interior and drive-up units. Blue Bell is an affluent suburb of Philadelphia, and adjacent to North Wales, which is home to another SecureSpace facility – SecureSpace North Wales. The stores complement each other in unit mix and location, with enough separation to provide coverage to a couple of different markets.

"The closest competitor to SecureSpace Blue Bell is 3.5 miles away, and the long-term supply picture for the area is compelling" said SecureSpace's Managing Director, Nathan McElmurry. "We worked directly with the Seller on this one since early construction, allowing us to influence the design and layout to our standards. Upon opening in the fall of 2022, our Ops team began third-party managing the store, so we already know the property and the market well. We're excited to now own it and expand our footprint in Pennsylvania."

SecureSpace Blue Bell opened in 2022 and is 100% climate-controlled. The leasing office features a modern lobby equipped with free WiFi, supplies for sale such as locks and boxes, and friendly staff to assist with all storage needs. As with all SecureSpace locations, this store features a state-of-the-art security system monitored by in-store staff and our offsite security team for maximum visibility.

Customers are invited to visit SecureSpace.com to calculate their storage size needs, view pictures of the space, rent a unit online without setting foot inside, or call (877) 399-0319 to talk to a friendly SecureSpace agent.

About SecureSpace Self Storage

SecureSpace Self Storage, based in Redondo Beach, CA, is one of the fastest-growing self-storage platforms in the USA with assets located primarily in high-density, urban markets. With a focus on exceptional customer service and upgraded security features, SecureSpace provides a high-quality experience that our customers can count on in any store they visit.

Relax. It’s safe at SecureSpace.

Between a week before Halloween and two days before the end of the year, 157 people will be laid off who work in non-consumer facing jobs for the Aetna Inc. office in Blue Bell, which is owned by CVS Health, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry.

Rhode Island-based CVS Pharmacy is poised to layoff its workforce at their Whitpain Township location at 1425 Union Meeting Road between October 21 and December 30, per an August 2023 Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act report.

The WARN notice is required under the eponymous Act to give advanced notice in cases of mass layoffs, according to the Department of Labor. A worker’s guide to WARN Act Compliance Assistance is available here.

Aetna Inc. became a subsidiary of CVS Health on Nov. 28, 2018 in a $69 billion merger.

The Montgomery County layoffs are a casualty of the 5,000-plus employee layoffs occurring nationwide as a way to reduce labor costs and prioritize direct care. The office building is not closing.

According to the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, the 5,000 layoffs account for about 2% of the CVS Health/Aetna workforce. According to the South Florida Sun Sentinel, the nationwide layoffs will occur in the same October-December timeframe.

The report states that the layoffs include managers, supervisors, analysts, data engineers, customer care pharmacists, actuary executives, and pharmacy call center technicians.

“As a result of this decision, employee terminations will be conducted beginning on October 21, 2023,” wrote Jennifer Bailey, a CVS labor relations executive for the company, to the newspaper. “All employees who will be terminated as a result of this action have been notified of their specific separation dates and that their separation from employment will be permanent.”

In a statement, CVS Health said there will be no impact to “our customer-facing colleagues in our stores, pharmacies, clinics, or customer services centers.”

At present, the $11 million-assessed, 172,000-plus-square-foot, 18-acre property is off-market. The general office building was built in 1990, according to online reports. It is currently owned by Aetna Life Insurance Co., in care of CVS, since December 2001, according to county property records.

Earlier this year, CVS Health acquired Signify Health in an $8 billion deal, which boasts more than 10,000 clinicians in its network in every state, and primary care provider Oak Street Health for $10 billion.

According to Becker’s Hospital Review, CVS has notified proper agencies of layoffs in eight other states, including more than 200 jobs in New Jersey. The most layoffs – more than 700 – are occurring in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, the company’s headquarters.

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MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PA — In the days following President Joe Biden's landmark campaign speech at Montgomery County Community College in Blue Bell, multiple campaign spokespersons have continued to refer to the event as occurring at Valley Forge National Historical Park, despite the two locations being some 15 miles away from each other. It's drawn criticism from some analysts and figures on the right who were already eager to poke holes in Biden's efforts to align himself with George Washington and the Continental Army wintering at Valley Forge in 1777-1778.

In the leadup to the President's visit, the campaign also characterized his speech's location as "at" or "near" Valley Forge, leading to much confusion among residents who were receiving simultaneous notices of the event in Blue Bell.

While President Biden did arrive in Valley Forge on his Marine One chopper in the afternoon before his speech, he did not deliver any remarks at the park. He and First Lady Jill Biden took a private tour with park rangers and laid a wreath at National Memorial Arch, but there was no public event.

The misleading description has not escaped the attention of Philadelphia area natives, nor historians.

"They call this the 'Valley Forge speech' but it wasn't delivered in Valley Forge, it was delivered in Blue Bell, PA," former Independence National Historical Park interpreter D. Thomas Adams shared on social media. "This unnecessary & euphemistic depiction is also disturbing."

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"In Valley Forge and in Charleston, President Biden spoke to the fundamental threat facing our democracy," Biden-Harris 2024 Communications Director Michael Tyler said Wednesday. "As President Biden reminded us in Valley Forge, he is fighting for that same sacred cause in this election," spokesperson Kevin Munoz added in a separate Wednesday briefing. And minutes after the speech, official campaign literature referred to the event as "near Valley Forge."

While the latter frame of reference is technically true on a broader regional or certainly national scale, describing Blue Bell in that way is no more accurate than giving a speech in center city Philadelphia and calling 4th and Market "near Valley Forge."

It draws additional importance when considering the intent of Biden's speech, to use one of the pivotal moments in American history as a symbol for the present crisis facing democracy. But it was not Blue Bell where Washington made his stand.

Analysts have speculated that Biden did intend on speaking at Valley Forge itself, when the speech was originally scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 6. However, aspirations to have the speech coincide with the three-year anniversary of the Capitol riots were foiled by a bad weather forecast, and the speech was moved to Friday the fifth at the community college.

Largely, national media has fully gone along with the Biden campaign's repeated suggestion that Blue Bell is synonymous Valley Forge. The Washington Post labeled it "Biden's Valley Forge speech." NPR, and even Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, called it "near Valley Forge."

"The national media has fallen lock, stock, barrel for the idea that Biden is "speaking in Valley Forge" today," national columnist Will Bunch said.

Multiple requests to the Biden campaign to clarify whether the President planned on speaking at Valley Forge itself were not answered.

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A Watermark retirement community in Montgomery County is utilizing virtual reality to help engage older adults.

BLUE BELL, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Blue Bell resident Barbara Lulejian is about to go for a walk in the meadow thanks to one of Watermark's signature programs for community life.

"Blue Bell Place offers EngageVR and we incorporate virtual reality into the programs that we offer here," says Cindy Franklin, Community Life Director at Blue Bell Place.

On this day, the group is going on a nature trek. Users navigate their new environment with just a push of a button.

While using the program, Franklin says various things can happen right in front of their eyes, like growing a tree.

Lulejian says it took a while to get used to using the technology, but after some practice, the virtual reality world they could view was "gorgeous."

"So one person uses the headset, the other people have it cast onto the TV," says Franklin.

She says users can see butterflies and flowers blooming in the meadow.

"You feel like you want to reach right out and touch them," says Lulejian. "And they were like real up close."

She called the experience of walking through the virtual meadow "amazing."

On this nature trek, you can choose your locale.

"There's all kinds of opportunities," says Franklin.

Users can choose to walk through places like the meadow or the beach, as well as many other settings.

It creates a totally immersive experience through both sight and sound. Residents also learn about nature.

Franklin says the virtual reality experience is something that is "new and it's exciting" for residents.

"The EngageVR can increase socialization, because other people can share their experience with the technology," says Franklin. "And it's just a wonderment."

Blue Bell Place resident Joan King also tried out the technology.

"Everything looks more animated," says King.

She says she saw a lot of nature, along with some animals that included "little, tiny rabbits."

Janice A. Spivack, another Blue Bell Place resident, called the virtual reality experience "wonderful."

"Because you're physically doing something and your brain is thinking at the same time," says Spivack.

"It's just expanding your horizons," says Lulejian.

For more information:

Blue Bell Place | Senior Living in Blue Bell, PA

EngageVR | Watermark Retirement Communities

Address:

Blue Bell Place

777 Dekalb Pike

Blue Bell, PA 19422

People woke up Tuesday morning to a winter wonderland in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania suburbs, Lehigh Valley, South Jersey and Delaware after inches of snow fell on many neighborhoods overnight.

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The snowfall caused school delays and closures and some tricky driving conditions. It also gave kids home from school a chance to dust of their sleds.

Here is a look at snow totals -- care of the National Weather Service -- by inches from around the Philadelphia region from the snow that fell on Jan. 15 and 16, 2024. (Note: this list is not complete and will be updated)

Pennsylvania snow totals

Philadelphia County

Fox Chase - 2.4

Philadelphia International Airport - 3.3

Point Breeze - 3.2

Berks County

District Township -

Hamberg - 2.5

Reading Regional Airport - 2.1

Union Township - 2.9

Bucks County

Croydon - 2

Langhorne - 2.5

Levittown - 2.5

Lower Makefield Township - 2.5

Jamison - 2

Warminster - 2

Chester County

Birmingham Township - 3.1

Downingtown - 2.5

East Nantmeal - 2.5

Jennersville - 3.3

Pennsbury Township - 2.9

West Caln - 2.7

Delaware County

Bethel Township - 4

Boothwyn - 3.4

Chelsea - 3

Gardendale - 3.7

Morton - 3

Lehigh County

Lehigh Valley International Airport - 1.9

Macungie - 2

New Tripoli - 2.3

Montgomery County

Blue Bell - 2.5

Horsham - 3

Jenkintown - 3

Lower Moreland Township - 2.5

Norristown - 3.9

Snow continued to fall in Philadelphia's suburbs Tuesday morning. NBC10's Randy Gyllenhaal was live from King of Prussia where snow plow crews cleaned up the street for what they feel is first time in a long time.

Oreland - 2.5

Penn Wynne - 2.8

Wyncote - 3.3

Northampton County

North Catasauqua - 1.4

New Jersey snow totals

Atlantic County

Atlantic City International Airport - 1.3

Galloway Township - 1.3

Estell Manor - 1.4

Mullica Township - 1.5

Somers Point - 1.1

Burlington County

Columbus - 3

Medford Lakes - 2.5

Moorestown - 3

Mount Holly - 2.9

Mount Laurel - 3

Rancocas - 2.9

Riverside - 3.5

South Valley Regional Airport - 2.6

Camden County

Barrington - 2.6

Greentree - 3.5

Haddon Heights - 2.3

Snow coated the ground in South Jersey Tuesday after overnight snow. NBC10's Miguel Martinez-Valle reports on how people were dealing with the wintry weather in Camden County.

Haddon Township - 2.6

Mount Ephraim - 2.5

Cape May County

Cape May Courthouse - 0.5

Cumberland County

Deerfield Township - 2

Seabrook Farms - 2.4

Gloucester County

Greenwich Township - 1.6

Malaga - 2.4

Mantua - 3

Paulsboro - 3

Pitman - 2.2

Mercer County

Hamilton Square - 2.3

Trenton Mercer Airport - 2.2

Ocean County

Beachwood - 2.6

Lanoka Harbor - 2.5

Ocean Acres - 1

Toms River - 2.5

Whiting - 2.8

Salem County

Woodstown - 1

Delaware snow totals

Kent County

Dover - 2

Dover Air Force Base - 1.6

New Castle County

Clayton - 1.4

Elsmere - 3.5

Hockessin - 3.1

Middletown - 3.3

Newark - 3.6

Sussex County

Delmar - 1

Seaford - 1.2

Lakeside Manor - 2

As always, be sure you have the latest version of the NBC10 app downloaded so you can track the next snow to fall.