Nursing Home's Future at Risk

Posted May 24th, 2008 at 10:28 PM by wayward
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From the News-Gazette:

With Medicaid cutbacks, deficit-spending, fines from one state agency and major sanctions from another, the Champaign County Nursing Home has had a bad year.

Since May 8, the facility has been barred from accepting new Medicare or Medicaid residents. The state agency that regulates nursing homes is tabulating a $200-a-day fine since Jan. 16, when a patient was injured.

The facility has until July 16 to get back into substantial compliance, said Susan Hofer, a spokeswoman for the Illinois Department of Public Health.

If there are six months of noncompliance, the home could be shut down, Hofer said. She declined to discuss the nature of the injury to the resident.

After the Jan. 16 incident, there were public health inspections on Feb. 8, Feb. 26. March 19, April 17 and May 21, Hofer said.

"At each of those times, some things had been fixed and some were not in compliance," Hofer said.

The Champaign County Board discussed negotiating the penalties in closed session Thursday night, but would not discuss the matter with reporters.

Discuss.

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John Bambenek's picture
On May 24th, 2008 at 11:08 PM, John Bambenek said:

Can someone explain to me exactly what exemption to the open meetings act is allowing them to discuss this f*** up in closed sessions? 

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On May 26th, 2008 at 09:32 AM, wayward said:

Maybe it's related to a lawsuit?  Or are personnel issues also an exemption for OMA?

John Farney's picture
On May 26th, 2008 at 10:25 AM, John Farney said:

The motion for closed session was to discuss potential litigation before a court or administrative tribunial. It was a legal closed session. What's disappointing to me is that the violatons took place in January, fines started in April, beds go unfilled since early in this month, and the county board is finally made aware of this issue in late May when we find out the home could be closed by the state in July. Get right on that June loan, and start working on the one for August! I hope some board members are finally mad with the lies and misinformation that constantly are fed from CCNH. Maybe not passing the loan would get a point across.

On May 26th, 2008 at 02:20 PM, Bruce Byrd said:

I think it is a very nice coincidence that the last day for them to get it right it July 16th,,,,,my birthday.

On May 27th, 2008 at 06:00 PM, Anonymous (not verified) said:

I hope there's some good new in there somewhere .....