A major fire on Jan. 23 will leave the south Fargo senior care facility closed for up to a year or longer, Elim parent company Cassia said Thursday, Jan. 30, and about 170 employees are looking for new work.
But because so many nursing homes, hospitals and care centers in the Fargo-Moorhead metro need workers, it didn't take long for many to land a new job just a day after the layoffs were reported.
Dozens of Elim employees, many of them certified nursing assistants, on Friday filled an Eventide Senior Living Communities conference at a job fair, where they were able to get in touch with the possible new employer.
As people like Kylee Buchanan, Leah Winge, and Christina Adams, who each have at least a dozen years at Elim as CNAs, met with Eventide, they also reckoned with the emotional reality of leaving the place and people they loved behind.
"It almost didn't seem real at first, and then you realize you are not going back to that same place and you are not going back to the comfort of having your team," Winge said.
"It is still unreal to me," Adams said. "I have been at Elim 13 years and it was my second family."
The fire displaced over a hundred residents and 40 ended up at Eventide facilities in Fargo and Moorhead. The Elim CNAs were hired on the spot at Friday's fair and will once again be seeing the familiar seniors they cared for.
Reconstruction at Elim could take up to a year and the nursing home’s parent organization said there was no way it could hang on to the workforce during that time. On Friday, workers and administrators had another meeting to discuss the situation.
For care providers like Eventide, the timing is good. With a sudden influx of 40 residents from Elim, they now also have a ready-to-go workforce. Most of the new Eventide employees can start right after orientation since many have worked as CNAs for years.
"(We're) telling everyone right now: we have a position for you if you are looking for it," said Eventide vice president Kayla Linn. "We have people to care for and we want to continue to get them in our door and welcome them to the Eventide family."
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