WDWS is reporting that as of late last week, the CCNH still hadn't passed a state-mandated inspection and is still in danger of being shut down by the state on July 16.
Forgive me, but given the history of incompetence with this nursing home, I have little confidence that the County will be able to avoid a shutdown, so I must ask:
- How would a shutdown affect the $600,000 loan being discussed by the County Board tonight?
- How would a shutdown affect the consulting contract with MPA?
Gordy,,,,I dont know if anyone even knows the answers to your questions, I would assume they still would have to make payroll. I can see a mass unemployment claim filing coming up. Maybe they think they can buy some time with MPA. I cant see it myself.
Force majeure.
Closure would bring, uh..., Closure. Which is what is needed. It's not the end of the world.
It is almost impossible to get a new start while the old leaven is in the bowl. Purge the stables and start over.
if anyone gets the chance, please read the Letter to the Editor in todays News-Gazette, by Pius C. Weibel, head of the Champaign County Board. I knew he was slow,,,but my goodness! This guy really is clueless! Why he would write such a blatantly stupid letter at this time about his and the boards good work over the legal fees for the nursing home, is just, well words escape me. I am glad this guy is up for re-election,,,,,hopefully his previous supporters will see him for what he is.
My 10-year lay experience with nursing homes that had tremendous violations, etc. is that a state department of public health will do almost anything to avoid closing a nursing home. It is very complex to close one, move patients, clear records, etc. that the path of least resistance is to work toward not closing. Though it can happen and does. It was hard enough when Manor Care, locally, was closed and this was a owner decision, not public health.
Pattsi Petrie
If they're shut down, I wonder if they've made any arrangements for transport of patients, etc. I don't know what happens in cases like this, and if they are shut down, should the County give them more money? wouldn't that be an opportune time to sell?
Pattsi and CD, they have been laying the groundwork for this for many months,,,,they have scouted as far away as over by Taylorville, I am sure our home has an exit plan,,,,,for this anyway. And, yes, the state will do anything possible to keep from closing a home....but our people seem to be begging for that, they sure have not done much to prevent it.
if sold:
the downside - the taxpayers are on the hook for a building they don't own, and from which they are receiving no public benefit.
the upside - the costs are fully defined and finite. the labor subsidy can go away. you get what you get for the building/business.
I see this as a case of the County losing money, and the only question is how much. Do they sell now at a loss and cut their losses, or do they gamble with taxpayer dollars that they can turn this around?
The economic principle of sunk cost should be factored into this decision to close/sell/outsource.
"Economics proposes that a rational actor does not let sunk costs influence one's decisions, because doing so would not be assessing a decision exclusively on its own merits."
There are many costs/benefits to analyze in this decision, but we should not accept and continue to bleed costs because we just spent a lot of money on the new building.
B for Bus..The people on the county board have long ago forsaken any rational thought, basic business model on this deal. It pure emotion, some other things even I refuse to write. They are on the states doomsday list,,,,,and one of the members of this new nhb,,,,,calls some of them basically routine,,,,not uncommon. etc. Well the state does not fine you and put you on the shut the doors list for routine matters, and if that were true,,,,why cannot these routine problems get fixed? They seem to be hanging on like a bad oder. Ralph L. has been very public and vocal about not supporting this idea, hiring a consultant,,,,,,and as usual when it counts he fell apart like a cheap suit.
Mr. Byrd,
I have already taken up the task of dealing with P. Woods and the way I was misrepresented in Friday's News Gazette. The caviler manner at which I was portrayed has me deeply upset. My point of the tags was to help discern the cryptic way that the IDPH words their regulations. I completely agree that we are in very bad trouble and have never personally had the regulatory mess that faces the CCNH. Some unfortunate and entirely avoidable things happened while administration was apparently asleep at the wheel and they need to be held accountable. F323 is the repeated tag that Andrew cannot seem to get cleared out. The original incident involved the unfortunate and heartbreaking death of a resident. The following "repeat tag" was involving an unattended mop bucket with absolutely no resident harm. The point that I was trying to make was that CCNH is not a place that has rampant accidental death continually happening, as IDPH would lead some to believe with the all-encompassing tag F323. I cannot agree more that there are no routine tags and they should have already been fixed.