Update: Entertainment-Industry Charity Confirms Closure of L.A. Nursing Home

The Motion Picture and Television Fund is pressing on with plans to close its nursing home and hospital for show-business veterans by year’s end, reports The New York Times.

Residents of the Los Angeles center received notice of the decision Tuesday. The fund says it can no longer afford to operate the home without endangering its other services to elderly actors, directors, and crew members. It has outlined plans to help move clients to other care facilities.

The proposed shutdown has generated months of intense controversy in Hollywood, with the families of residents vowing to fight the closure of the 150-bed hospital and care center. A mediation effort failed last month, and the battle is now expected to move to court.

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