Sal....that is so not the truth and you know it!! Stop stirring will ya?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
no this is what I have been told by some of the boys. He is the onlyu thing stopping the repubs like johnny boy from politicizing the department which I might add is the hgigfhest ranked in the region
Even if it were true, which I doubt it is, what could a lone democrat do to stop that from happening? Doesn't make sense...
Just go back in time a bit and see what Diane Marco did as a sole democrat on the town board for our boys in 'black'. Although she clearly had the help of Joey Guidarelli!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
SCHENECTADY Interim CEO joins Hometown Health BY JAMES SCHLETT Gazette Reporter Reach Gazette reporter James Schlett at 395-3040 or jschlett@dailygazette.net.
Robert Bylancik thought he had put his career as a health care executive in the city behind him. After working at Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital for 38 years and retiring as its president and chief executive officer in 2007, the 64-year-old Bylancik in June moved from the Schenectady to Clifton Park to be closer to his daughter and grandchildren. Within seven weeks, he was back in Schenectady heading a health clinic for poor and uninsured patients. Hometown Health Centers announced Monday that Robert Bylancik will serve as interim chief executive officer of the federally qualified health center until a permanent replacement can be found for John Silva. Silva last month abruptly announced his resignation after six years of heading the clinic. The appointment brings Bylancik back into Schenectady’s health care industry less than two years after he arranged a merger between Sunnyview and Northeast Health, the Troy health facilities network that includes Albany Memorial and Samaritan hospitals. “It was the last thing on my mind,” said Bylancik, who started working at the State Street clinic July 28, less than two weeks after Silva stopped working there. Despite leaving Schenectady this past spring, Bylancik continued to be active in the community. He sits on the boards of directors for the Schenectady Museum and Northeast Health. At Hometown Health, Bylancik said he wants to ensure the clinic continues providing quality care and “reenergize” its connections with the local medical community. Bylancik said he also plans to raise community awareness of the clinic, which treats over 22,000 federally registered patients annually. He will give tours of the clinic and speak about it at public events. In Silva’s wake, Hometown Health Vice President of Clinical Services Angella Timothy has briefly headed the clinic. Bylancik said he has not talked with Silva since taking over at Hometown Health. He expects the CEO search process to last three to six months. “We’ve just begun the process. I don’t know how much interest we’ll have,” Bylancik said. Silva took over Hometown Health when it was weeks away from closing in 2002. Although he managed to relocate the clinic from a former school on Craig Street to State Street and double its patient volume, financial problems have continued to dog it. Bylancik described the clinic’s condition now as “stable.” A surge in care for county residents who have lost employer-provided health benefi ts and illegal immigrants substantially hurt the clinic’s finances in 2007. The influx of those patients prompted Hometown Health to provide more reduced, charitable and baddebt care. In dire straits last autumn, Silva moved to close Hometown Health’s satellite office at the Medical Arts Center near Ellis Hospital. He also stopped providing health care services at the Schenectady County Jail. Silva often said his center needed more support from the city, county and state. Even Bylancik noted how many people in the community do not fully understand what a federally qualified health center is. However, Bylancik is not unfamiliar with working at a unique and, consequently, misunderstood health care facility. Prior to the Northeast merger, Sunnyview was upstate’s only freestanding rehabilitation hospital. Bylancik started working at Sunnyview in 1969 as a staff social worker, and he became its CEO in 2000. Explaining his decision to come out of retirement, Bylancik said: “It was really a decision to help out the community, to grow and promote a very important health care organization here.”
SCHENECTADY Health center to expand services BY MICHAEL LAMENDOLA Gazette Reporter
Hometown Health Centers will expand women’s health care services at its State Street facility beginning mid-month, using a $498,000 state grant. Hometown will create additional exam rooms and hire a nurse midwife. It has already hired a full-time physician with a speciality in obstetrics and gynecology who will begin seeing patients Oct. 15, said spokesman Joe Gambino. The expansion will allow the facility to see an additional 500 to 600 women each year, said Hometown interim CEO Robert Bylancik. “It will form the base for the development of a more comprehensive obstetrics/gynecological program for our patients,” he said. Gambino said Hometown is already seeing patients requiring obstetrical and gynecological care. “The difference is we have hired a full-time obstetrician and we are recruiting a nurse midwife,” he said. Hometown is a federally qualified health center that serves lowincome people with little or no insurance. “We have significant population of underserved women in this general area. They depend on Hometown for their health,” Gambino said. The expanded services are expected to be self-sustaining, as the state grant Hometown received is a one-time only award, Gambino said. Hometown sought the grant as part of a project called “Strengthening Women’s Health Services” in Schenectady, Gambino said. Bylancik said the project will encourage regular primary care.
women's 'health services' only comes into view when population up/down is an issue....why???......it depends on the population #'s for the future and the aged......
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Good thing that the state, in a financial crisis (and having the assembly/senate called back to cut money out...again...), has a 1/2 million to throw into this project. Will it expand the tax base as well as Metroplex has? Well....maybe I should say more than Metroplex has?
Good point MT. But another thought here to is where is the talk of 'consolidation'? I mean since there already is a Women's Hospital (Bellevue)...why don't they just close down this Hometown Health 'clinic' and send them all to Bellevue Women's Hospital? Or aren't the 'underserved' welcome there?
And where will Hometown Health get their money from when the 1/2 Million runs out? NYS is in a financial crisis of it's own now that will probably continue for a few years.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
I think you should take Silvas name down since he has nothing to do with all the bad there
I disagree. In fact, Silva was the previous CEO of Hometown Health and many ofthe issues that may or may not continue for some time are most likely going to be due to some of the workings of the time that he was in charge. Just because someone is no longer running something does not mean that they are not the reason for it being the way it is now...for example the people who formerly worked for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are responsible for the mess that they're in, whether they work there still or not (such as moving on and running the finanaces on Mr. Obama's campaign). It's still relevant.
I think you should take Silvas name down since he has nothing to do with all the bad there
Leave the name....in the end it really wont matter....he will rear his head again somewhere else or here......the 'vultures' are circling for the lucrative government contracts to have our national health care doled out......someone needs to fill that position locally, regionally and nationally.......
In the end it could end up being Dr.Bob from the muppets in charge....strings attached and all.......
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
SCHENECTADY Future dicey for Craig Street ‘money pit’Hometown Health having difficulty selling building BY KATHLEEN MOORE Gazette Reporter
Hometown Health is still trying to find a buyer for its dilapidated old building on Craig Street, but the expensive lien on the property has scared most purchasers away. This month the health clinic even called together most of the nonprofits on Hamilton Hill and tried to persuade them to buy the building at 602-608 Craig St., but no one budged. The building has been vacant since 2005. The clinic is starting to cut its losses, turning off the heat in the old building as it struggles to remain financially viable at its new location at 1044 State St. It still owes money on the Craig Street site while also making payments on a $5.7 million loan for the new building. Interim CEO Robert Bylancik said his board is hoping to negotiate with its bankers to reduce the amount of the Craig Street lien, but he said negotiations can’t begin until Hometown Health has a potential buyer. “The big thing right now is to fi nd someone who has the resources to do something with the building,” he said. “The bank knows we have a deteriorating asset … but we really won’t be able to go further until we have some interest and we can go to the bank and discuss it with that buyer.” The clinic has tried that route before without much success. Schenectady Community Action Program offered to buy the building for $185,000 in 2006 when it needed a new home for Head Start. Hometown Health accepted and SCAP quickly moved forward, spending $70,000 on architectural and mechanical drawings as it prepared for a lightning-fast three-month renovation project. SCAP needed to move its Head Start program to the building by the beginning of the school year. Then Hometown Health told its bank that it had a buyer and asked the bank to release the lien. Bank officials agreed to do so — if SCAP paid another $200,000. “It was not worth it,” SCAP Executive Director Deb Schimpf said. “The appraisal said after our renovations it would be worth $1 million to $1.1 million and we were already spending $1 million to renovate. We could not have spent more.” So SCAP walked away, $70,000 poorer. Now Schimpf is advising other buyers to beware. “I’m concerned about a not-for- profit — make sure the lien has been released before you start spending any money,” she said. “We had a deadline so we had to do the drawings, but just to do due diligence you’d have to spend $10,000 or more. You’ve got to make sure the lien is clear.” She added that structural inspections found the building in decent shape. “The roof needed to be replaced, but other than that we thought it was in good shape, structurally. Of course that was two years ago,” she said. “And now they’re turning the heat off. They can’t afford to heat the building. They’re in a tough bind.” With the nonprofits uninterested, Bylancik is................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....amp;EntityId=Ar01100
When will our local powers that be, realize that when you have almost 'all' non-profits and social programs 'just don't work'.Especially now with the state and federal cut backs. There are no jobs to be had in the county and there are clearly savy businesses people out there that know better than to even think of setting up in this area. It is deprived and in decay.
BUT....it is looking good, huh?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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