Mountainside Senior Living in Crozet is being sold from the nonprofit Jefferson Area Board for Aging to a for-profit company.

As of Friday, the facility is managed by English Meadows Senior Living, a company that, according to its website, has eight facilities across Virginia. Mountainside staff and residents will be able to stay at the facility.

Marta Keane, CEO of JABA, said English Meadows ultimately will buy Mountainside once state licensure has changed over. She said JABA has struggled to keep the facility financially sustainable without the infusion of additional funds over the last 18 months.

“We realized that we wanted to find a solution that would allow everyone to remain where they were and would allow us to continue to be fiscally responsible to JABA,” she said. Read more.