A pending sale of the Edgar P. Benjamin Healthcare Center took a step forward July 31 when Suffolk County Superior Court approved a suggestion by the facility’s receiver to sell ownership and operations to Allaire Health Service, a New-Jersey-based, for-profit operator of long-term care facilities.

The recommendation comes about four months after Joseph Feaster, the Mission Hill nursing home’s court-appointed receiver, first identified a sale as his suggested course of action to continue operations at the facility, and almost a year-and-a-half after Feaster was appointed by the court as receiver of the Edgar Benjamin. That move ousted former administrator Tony Francis amid a plan to close the center and allegations of financial mismanagement.

The receivership and commonwealth said they a

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