Long Term Care

Key Vote Unanimous to Disapprove New Albany County Nursing Home

September 20, 2012 County Government

Key committee of Public Health and Health Planning Council (PHHPC) voted unanimously a short time ago to disapprove Albany County’s application to build a new nursing home. More details later.

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Perhaps If They’d Owned Their Own Homework in the First Place

September 20, 2012 County Government

Another quote of the day. Mine. Pretty obnoxious, huh? In this case, the day was March 20, 2012. this is what I said when the Albany County Legislature first became aware of the projected costs for a new nursing home that their own leadership had submitted to the State as part of a certificate of […]

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The Albany Times Union Offers the County Executive Some Advice

September 20, 2012 County Government

Time to put on your big boy pants, Danny: Face reality, Mr. McCoy – Times Union Editorial (perhaps I’m taking a liberty here, but in its entirety): THE ISSUE: The state shows every sign of denying the county’s quest to build a new nursing home. THE STAKES: The elderly, especially those who are poor, still […]

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Quotes of the Day on the Albany County Nursing Home

September 20, 2012 County Government

A couple of reactions to the latest Albany County attempt to build a new nursing home. Perhaps we’ll get into details later, but the only real change from the last version of the County’s application to the latest revision is an increased revenue estimate because they think the managed long-term care changes the State is […]

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Strike 3 on a New Albany County Nursing Home?

September 17, 2012 County Government

Will get to the substance in a later posting. But this is verbatim from the State Health Department’s recommendation to the Public Health and Health Planning Council. Albany County Nursing Home, a 250-bed county owned residential health care facility (RHCF), requests approval to construct a 200-bed replacement facility and certify a 30-slot adult day health […]

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Constituent Consistency

September 5, 2012 County Government

One of the things that’s interesting about this story in the Observer, out in Dunkirk, NY is how the comments (vitriol included) are so like what you’ll read and hear all over New York where a county is considering doing anything other than building a new nursing home. Here are a couple of examples: FredoniaFred:The […]

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Couple of Nursing Home Stories

August 23, 2012 Long Term Care

Couple of nursing home stories.

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Useful Tool for Finding Nursing Home Performance Information

August 17, 2012 Health Care

Take a look here. ProPublica, a public interest journalism site, has a tool for identifying nursing homes by location and severity of deficiencies. It has free text capability as well. By way of example, the link is set for New York and the nursing homes with the worst deficiencies.

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NPR Notices the Fading County Nursing Homes in NYS

August 17, 2012 County

National Public Radio does a story on New York’s counties getting out of the nursing home business. Click here for text and sound.

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Albany County Invited Everyone to a Nursing Home Party but No One’s Coming?

August 4, 2012 County

We’ve been waiting for Albany County to reveal what responses they got to their RFP’s regarding sale or management of the Albany County Nursing Home. The Times-Union grew impatient and filed a FOIL request. Here’s the TU’s story on what they learned. There were no bids to buy the facility and only one bid to […]

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