Just sell the whole damn thing to a private company!!!
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
GLENVILLE New nursing home will have different design BY MICHAEL LAMENDOLA Gazette Reporter Reach Gazette reporter Michael Lamendola at 395-3114 or lamend@dailygazette.com.
Schenectady County’s proposed $51 million new nursing home will differ considerably from the current facility on Hetcheltown Road, as outlined in two requests for proposals. The county is seeking architectural and design services and construction management services through the RFPs, which are due Aug. 14. The new nursing home will feature a central core with attached multi-story wings. The central core will contain support and clinical services, and the wings will contain single bedrooms for residents. The wings will form neighborhoods for residents, featuring dining rooms, living rooms and dens, decentralized kitchenettes and other amenities. In all, the new facility will contain 140,000 square feet, and ground for it will be broken in the fall. The goal is to have the nursing home open by 2012. It will replace the current Glendale Home, consisting of three buildings built in 1930, 1960 and 1975. Glendale Home, as it now stands, contains 528 beds, but only 220 are in use. Many of the bedrooms are double occupancy, and the facility, a former sanitarium, has an institutional look. The county will move residents to the new facility and demolish Glendale in phases. Dr. Brian Gordon, a Schenectady County legislator and chairman of the Legislature’s Health Committee, said, “We are excited about the development of the new facility, and by 2012, we should have a complex everybody in Schenectady should be proud of.” ..................>>>>.............>>>>...........http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01101&AppName=1
That's all nice....but what kind of equipement can it handle....multiple electronic devices, wheelchairs, walkers, tubefeeding, ventilators Oxygen concentrators, Nebulizer machines, wound vacs etc etc......
the government/insurance doesn't pay for fluff and stuff.....and the folks that enter and stay get more acute.......these aren't the suspender wearing, weekly hairsetting crowd of past nursing home residents......
this is a new era and acute care is what the $$ is for......now make sure your contract keeps folks from calling in or sandbagging....
...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
Build nothing at St Claires. There is an existing facility rotting away. BT is right turn it over to a non-profit. Dennis Packard was the last Comm of DSS selected -what does this have to do with anything?
If the KRATS say $54 MILLION it will be over $100 MILLION and the State is broke. Either do something with Albany County which is also making noises about a "new home", turn it to a non-profit or use St Claires, which Ellis does not need.
Dr Gordon, who initially supported the St Claires option, is running for re-election this year? He should be dumped for his complete disregard for the oppressed County taxpayers.
We are trying to keep seniors {and non-seniors} in their homes. Unlike KRATS.
Why are the KRATS making home ownership unaffordable by working people in this county-by irresponsible spending and taxation? Please list your cuts in the bloated County Budget under SS Savage. LOL!
Not only should gorden be voted out next go-around, but so should judy 'tax & spend' dago. And since vellano is walking lock step with ms dago, it should clearly be a 'NO VOTE' for her as well.
They are ALL looking to spend spend spend and tax tax tax. Never, not once, has there been any conversation about cutts in spending. NOT ONCE! If you people vote these guys/girls in, hang on to your wallets. really!
And benny is right...if the initial cost is $54M.....expect it to be $100M!!!!
SELL IT AND PRIVATIZE IT!
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
Editorial: Different counties, different directions on nursing homes Monday, September 14, 2009
In recent years we’ve criticized Schenectady County leaders for planning a new Glendale Home, knowing that it will continue to require huge taxpayer operating subsidies, when there are alternatives. The leaders just pushed on, acting as if there were no other way, and approved a new $51 million nursing home, construction of which is supposed to begin by Nov. 1. Yet two of the alternatives we mentioned, privatization of the county home and the outright closing of it, have been proposed by neighboring counties in the last month. In August, the Fulton County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to contract with the Rochester-based nonprofit Center for Government Research for a study of how it might go about privatizing the county home. Bleecker Supervisor David Howard, chairman of the county’s health services committee, cited the uncertainties about future state and federal funding for nursing homes. Both have been cut back in the last few years and, particularly with the state’s parlous finances, the trend is likely to continue. That means even bigger county taxpayer subsidies are likely in the future. Meanwhile in Albany County last week, County Executive Mike Breslin scrapped plans to build a new state-of-the-art nursing facility. He said it wasn’t really about money, but providing community-based long-term care to the elderly in their homes so they can stay independent longer. However, the $18 million a year the county is now paying to subsidize the home surely played a part in his decision. The unions in both counties will resist the idea of any change, just as they have in Schenectady. But there would still likely be jobs for nurses and other staff, although perhaps not with the same cushy benefits. The unions and other supporters of the status quo will say the public home is an essential safety net for the needy. But the truth is that private homes take just about as many Medicaid patients as the public homes. And if government gets out of the nursing home business, and there is a need, private providers will add capacity or build new facilities to meet it.
WOW...this editorial looks like it was taken right from this websites playbook, huh?
So we all agree that this is true....but was this a deliberate slam against suhrada (even though no names were mentioned) for being against glendale but in favor of rems since it is both in t he same? Perhaps?
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
Yeah, one costs 12 million a year and one costs $230,000 a year. I thought conservatives were against equivalency? And conservatives I know understand basic math.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Albany County scrapped plans to build a new facility. They were worried about increasing the tax burden in a recession. Fulton County is exploring non-profit options. They were worried about increasing taxpayer burden.
Meanwhile, back in Schenectady County-full speed ahead on building a new facility-nobody cares about taxpayer burdens. Where is Judy DAG on this issue? A real fiscal Conservative? As far as Dr. Gordon, he was right the first time when he said move to St Clares. Then he was quickly schooled by Sue Savage.
Yeah, one costs 12 million a year and one costs $230,000 a year. I thought conservatives were against equivalency? And conservatives I know understand basic math.
Conservative believe that government run services that can be done by private companies are fine as long as the government can do it cheaper? Like Obamacare or GM(government motors) So why doesn't the Town of Rotterdam hire their own attorney instead of subcontracting it to Parisi's firm, if it can be done cheaper?
Face it, Suhrada was for privatizing the County nursing home because the County nursing home's unionized employees were already in the pocket of the County Democrats. So proposing to privatize the nursing home didn't harm him politically. The Republicans were looking to get some public employees in their pockets in Rotterdam, but I think they miscalculated politically.
Mertz stuck to his ideological guns and foiled the big plan to add yet another tax in the already over taxed County. I'm suprised that Joe Suhrada who represented this district at the county level would support such a tax increase, knowing the burden that the residents are already under.
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Build nothing at St Claires. There is an existing facility rotting away. BT is right turn it over to a non-profit. Dennis Packard was the last Comm of DSS selected -what does this have to do with anything?
We are trying to keep seniors {and non-seniors} in their homes. Unlike KRATS.
