I'm an older person on SS and the last place in the world I want to end up is in a home like the Glendale Home. I've seen far too much about what goes on in these homes when I was working. My grandmother spent 5 years there and when I visited her I found it very depressing and the atmosphere in homes like this is not what I would call a good quality of life.
And not just on this issue. The DEM County morons want to move Real Property Services to Finance. This is contrary to State law. First they do something-then bond it-then they check for State feedback. Everything is backarsed.
The best idea to to return to a County Board of Supervisors. Then everyone will have a seat at the table. The current failures can all be broomed out in one sweep. This will save millions and improve representation.
Under the new 'regulations' many Schenectady taxpayers will be turned away from this home, just like they would at a private home. Again, Schenectady LEG pulled yet another bait-and-switch on the public. They promised taxpayers a County home - but the new location will not accept many of those who provided large amounts of tax money for building it. Again, the County lied.
It doesn't mean that they will turn Schenectady taxpayers away - they will just be accepting more patients who can afford to pay. BTW --- maybe if your buddy Senator Farley worked to end or, at least , reduce all of the unfunded state mandates that overburden the county and other local governments --- something which he admitted he had nNOT done anything about in 34 years in the State Senate ..... maybe if he and his cronies in control of the State Senate did more than talk out of their backsides and actually did REAL WORK and wrote legislation to end those unfunded state mandates ... maybe we could actually have BOTH a new county nursing home and lower local property taxes.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
Boy Ronnie, you sure give Mr Farley a lot of credit. He, according to you, single handedly keeps the "unfunded state mandates" in existence and it's his fault govts are overburdened. Boy, he must be one powerful man alright.
I won't mention specific private nursing homes by name --- but I know of a few that don't provide great serviceeven to folks who pay full price. Glendale is better than these private nursing homes -- although IMHO I wouldn't send anyone I love to a nursing home in the greater Capital District.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
I won't mention specific private nursing homes by name --- but I know of a few that don't provide great serviceeven to folks who pay full price. Glendale is better than these private nursing homes -- although IMHO I wouldn't send anyone I love to a nursing home in the greater Capital District.
venture down south.....and actually, it really doesn't matter...service/care/medical it's all apples and oranges and tomatoes.... the fact is....
NO ONE LIKES TO BE HELPLESS.....and that is what happens to ALL OF US.....no amount of money can remove the depression of losing youth/vitality.....and no F'EN anti-depressant will fix it(but it does make the family happy).....so really, we dont need a county nursing home and if folks choose to they can save money for some kind of creepy hotel that caters to delusions of Dennis Hopper.....it's your age and your afflictions...plan plan plan......the average time in a nursing home until death is 3years.....got it....3 years......
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venture down south.....and actually, it really doesn't matter...service/care/medical it's all apples and oranges and tomatoes.... the fact is....
NO ONE LIKES TO BE HELPLESS.....and that is what happens to ALL OF US.....no amount of money can remove the depression of losing youth/vitality.....and no F'EN anti-depressant will fix it(but it does make the family happy).....so really, we dont need a county nursing home and if folks choose to they can save money for some kind of creepy hotel that caters to delusions of Dennis Hopper.....it's your age and your afflictions...plan plan plan......the average time in a nursing home until death is 3years.....got it....3 years......
I sold long-term care insurance for a few years and that is why I am fairly knowledgeable about conditions in area nursing homes. Also, I have known at least 4 members of my family and several friends of family who have been in area nursing homes in the past decade. When you do your long-term care planning -- make sure that you get an insurance policy that will pay for home care. There are some companies that still offer good coverage plans for home care.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
Kudos again on your exposure of the fi scally irresponsible Glendale Nursing Home [Jan. 31 editorial]. An 87 percent gift from the state sounds great until you consider that the county is also a part of the state, and it becomes a matter of robbing Peter to pay Peter. Local officials have to consider the big picture when making such major decisions. This amount could save 1,000 state jobs.
There is growing opposition to this new County Home fiasco. Everyone {expect the County DEMS} realize that the State reimbursement formula will be cut. The DEMS keep pushing it refusing to listen to anyone but self interested parties.
This will be a $65 MILLION noose around the taxpayers neck. Now is the time to call your Legislator and voice strong opposition. Property taxes in Schenectady County are the 15th HIGHEST in the NATION. This must be privatized as both Fulton and Montgomery counties have successfully done.
I worked at Hallmark many years ago on Altamont Ave. 90 percent of the staff were very dedicated and tried to make it a not so depressing place. Have good stories and bad. I had a patient who never smiled. One day I was walking passed her and tripped and she broke out in laughter. So everytime I walked passed her up until the day she passed on I tripped on purpose, she loved it : ) Her laughter was music to my ears. We had this very tiny little lady who never had spoken, one day she just started speaking French like crazy, this wonderful aide I worked with happened to be french and they carried on conversations for a long time. Many good stories of wonderful people.
The other side,, I once walked in on an aide who was giving a whirlpool bath to a patient and just when I walked in she slapped the patient in the face. I reported it within seconds as I ran to the nurses station, she was fired that day. My grandmother was at Hallmark for a brief time, severe dementia, and my Mom got a call to come in, an orderly had punched my MiMi in the face : (
My grandfather-Poppi-was at Glendale after breaking his hip. Well some aide left him in the shower alone (supposedly) and allthough he couldn't walk at all we were told while he was left alone he got up and fell, he ended up in the ER getting stitches to his head. He lived to age 99, one month before his 100th birthday he passed away, very hard to see that.
There is good and bad in all nursing homes, but I did find Glendale to be the worst. You could just tell by the overpowering smell in the halls that alot of patients were not "changed" or kept clean : (
The same can be said of home health aides, my grandmother my dad's mom had some great aides that came into her home, than she had a really rotten one who treated her badly, hence she was gotten rid of, hopefully never to take care of elderly again.
Being an aide in a nursing home is a hard demanding job. We were always short staffed so sometimes given a list of ten to twelve patients a day, allthough we were able to give them some good care, it wasn't the kind we wanted to, we didn't have time to sit and talk to them on alot of days like we would want to, because some of these amazing people had no family or friends to visit them. That was very sad especially at holidays, some residents had a large group of family, while others sat in silence just looking on.
To be a good aide you must realize you're going to fall in love with your patients and each death is going to take a piece of your heart.
A friend of mine's father is in glendale. There are 'some' dedicated workers there. These few are there because they love taking care of the elderly. The rest?...............well they sure love the tax paid life long benefits!
Since the county leaders have back peddled and will run a county nursing home just like a private one, SELL IT!!
With all of the medicaid cuts coming down from the state, the taxpayer's will be on the hook for anything and everything else above that!
As a side note...........the place smells like pi$$!
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Glendale plans shape up John Purcell 03/18/11 County Legislature OKs environmental review, Farley questions funding
County Legislators are another step closer to beginning construction of the new Glendale Nursing Home in Glenville.
More than a month after the Glendale presentation by county officials on Jan. 26, which included concept plans and an overall footprint, a negative declaration was granted on the State Environmental Quality Review for the project during the County Legislature meeting on Tuesday, March 8. In the SEQR Environmental Review Form the “sledding hill” next to the property is stated to remain undisturbed and the concept plan appears congruent to the current direction.
“We presented a plan for public feedback and the feedback has been overwhelming positive, so the Glendale home will be built where we always envisioned it being built,” said Susan Savage, Chairwoman of the Schenectady County Legislature. “There was never any plan to touch the hill and there was never any plan to touch the field, although we were happy to listen to neighbors concerns about the field.”
Savage contested while concerns were raised about the adjacent field, which some residents dubbed “The Indian Kill Field,” there wasn’t a plan to build on the field, but the option did remain open during discussions in the Legislature. Proponents to preserve the field and sledding hill came out in support of the Legislature’s SEQR application retaining the open space.
“By choosing the place the new Glendale Nursing Home in front of the existing structure you have taken into consideration the importance of maintaining the open space of the sledding hill and adjacent meadow,” said Kathy Sen, who lives on Cedar Lane, adjacent to the field. “It is hoped you will include the field along with the sledding hill … before it is submitted to New York State. I presume this was merely an oversight.”
Raymond Collar, also a Cedar Lane resident, said he would “deeply grateful” if the application was stated as not disturbing the field before it was approved and sent to the Department of Environmental Conservation.
Residents also asked Savage to bring legislation she drafted to declare the field as forever wild for a vote, but after the meeting Savage said when the time is right she’d present the resolution for a vote. She said the process of converting an area into parkland takes more than “a few months.”
There were no amendments presented before voting on the SEQR determination, which passed 10-1 with Minority Leader Robert Farley voting against the resolution and four legislators absent. Ray Gillen, commissioner of the county’s Economic Development and Planning Department, said the SEQR application states the home will be built in front of the current facility and won’t affect the open space concerning residents.
“I think the site plan shows we don’t come anywhere near the field. The actual impact of the home is less than the current home,” said Gillen. “We are building in front, so we are as far from the hill as you can get now.”
While nothing was stated to be “concrete” at the presentation given in January, Gillen said the site plan was presented at the meeting, which was the overheard layout of where the building would be placed.
“It was as detailed as the site plan gets,” said Gillen about the material presented at the meeting.
At the same earlier meeting, County Manager Kathleen Rooney said there wasn’t a site plan, because the county is only at the beginning level of the design, but it appears what was presented is what the county is using as a site plan.
“This is the project, this is the project that is moving forward,” said Gillen about the discussed concept presented at the meeting, which was followed through in the SEQR process.
Savage said construction is hoped to begin in the spring or summer, which entails moving Hetcheltown Road in front of the building out 90 feet to meet town requirements and create a buffer space for safe removal of the old facility.
“There are more approvals that have to be achieved before actual construction of the home can begin. There won’t be a disruption to people that use Hetcheltown Road, because the current road will remain open till the new road is completed,” said Savage.
Farley questioned whether the funding for the over $50 million project will materialize and was concerned about county taxpayers being left with the burden to front the bill.
“The environment of the state of New York has been to cut Medicaid and to cut it deeper than it’s ever been contemplated being cut,” said Farley. “If we had a firm commitment out of the state that they were going to pay for the whole thing, maybe I would look at it differently. At the end of the day that commitment is not there and every sign that I see in state government points us in a different direction.”
Farley also said with the proposed tax cap, if funding is cut, the county might be in tight fiscal restraints to pay for the project.
“If you turn around and obligate yourself to a 20 percent tax increase with a 2 percent tax cap, I don’t quite know how that computes unless you take the Ohio model and file Schenectady County for bankruptcy,” said Farley.
Savage after the meeting said she didn’t foresee the bleak picture Farley suggested as a possibility.
“Bob Farley can’t be for it and against it and that is what his comments seem to say,” said Savage. “There will always in these times be concerns about state funding … we all have to wait and see what the final process is and this year is no different from any other year. We believe there will be more than adequate resources to complete what is currently being discussed.”
Legislator Karen Johnson said at the meeting she too is concerned about the possible cuts to Medicaid, which will primarily fund the project.
“I think a lot of us are concerned about the cuts in Medicaid not only because of the nursing home, but because of the impacts it has on our residents in many, many areas,” said Johnson.............................>>>>.......................>>>>..........................http://www.spotlightnews.com/news/view_news.php?news_id=1300469121
It is about time the voters of Schenectady County sent Bob Farley packing.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
Then get rid of the LEG too. Even Karen Johnson knows that the state cutting funds to Medicaid can put a strain on this $50 million dollar 'project'. Like Senders said, PRIVITIZE IT!
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And not just on this issue. The DEM County morons want to move Real Property Services to Finance. This is contrary to State law. First they do something-then bond it-then they check for State feedback. Everything is backarsed.
There is growing opposition to this new County Home fiasco. Everyone {expect the County DEMS} realize that the State reimbursement formula will be cut. The DEMS keep pushing it refusing to listen to anyone but self interested parties. 
