Genesee Nursing Home earns top ranking in U.S. report
Posted: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 12:00 am
Updated: 12:02 am, Tue Feb 22, 2011.
Genesee Nursing Home earns top ranking in U.S. report By Paul Mrozek pmrozek@batavianews.com The Daily News Online
Genesee County Nursing Home received the highest possible rating from a federal office’s review of all skilled nursing facilities in the United States.
Wyoming County Community Hospital’s nursing home received the lowest score, Orleans County an average one, according to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Results are available on the Internet website www.medicare.gov.
The criteria used to determine ratings was based on performance in health inspections, nurse staffing, and quality of medical care. All of the skilled nursing facilities in New York were evaluated in 2010.
Genesee County Nursing Home recorded a five-star rating with two health care deficiencies noted during the assessment period. Charles Rice, the facility’s administrator, briefly discussed the results with county lawmakers at the Feb. 16 Ways & Means Committee meeting.
The results are slated for publication in the magazine, “U.S. News & World Report.”
Health deficiencies are rated from 0 to 29; the higher the score the more problems there are that need to be addressed. The average for nursing homes in New York State is five deficiencies.
Genesee County was cited for not writing or implementing policies that forbid mistreatment, neglect or abuse of patients, or theft of their property. Its second deficiency was for failure to properly mark drugs in its pharmacy.
New York has 316 skilled nursing facilities. The 160-bed Genesee County Nursing Home, 278 Bank St., Batavia was one of 32 statewide that earned a top score.
“I was just so pleased,” County Legislature Chairman Mary Pat Hancock said Monday.
Hancock said although the Legislature has struggled with multi-million-dollar operating losses at the facility, the Legislature was always aware of the high quality of its care.
“We always appreciate it. I’ve been impressed with it,” Hancock said.
Rice, the facility’s administrator, could not be reached to comment Monday because of the federal holiday.
Fifteen of the state’s five-star nursing homes are in Western New York.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Genesee Co. Nursing Home & Genesee Justice Will Continue to Operate.
My very first blog dealt with the issue of the Genesee County Nursing Home and the county's attempt to sell it to a private entity.
More recent was a blog about the county's attempt to dismember Genesee Justice.
Today, both concerns were put to rest (at least for now).
Please take the time to click on the links to thebatavian.com to read the stories.
Report: Don't sell the nursing home
Keep it for now.
That's the recommendation of a consultant hired by Genesee County to study the Legislature's options for dealing with the increasingly expense-draining county nursing home.
Rochester-based Center for Governmental Research turned over a report this week to the county that said it's not a good time to sell public facilities and the county may not achieve sufficient returns from such a sale.
http://thebatavian.com/blogs/howard-owens/report-dont-sell-nursing-home/22779
Support, history of Genesee Justice motivated director to ensure division saved
Ed Minardo will be out of a job come Jan. 1, but Genesee Justice will carry on.
"It was certainly in my mind, 'Not on my watch," Minardo said after learning that County Manager Jay Gsell would recommend to the Legislature that Minardo's plan to cut staff hours and eliminate his own job be approved.
http://thebatavian.com/blogs/howard-owens/support-history-genesee-justice-motivated-director-ensure-division-saved/22777
More recent was a blog about the county's attempt to dismember Genesee Justice.
Today, both concerns were put to rest (at least for now).
Please take the time to click on the links to thebatavian.com to read the stories.
Report: Don't sell the nursing home
Keep it for now.
That's the recommendation of a consultant hired by Genesee County to study the Legislature's options for dealing with the increasingly expense-draining county nursing home.
Rochester-based Center for Governmental Research turned over a report this week to the county that said it's not a good time to sell public facilities and the county may not achieve sufficient returns from such a sale.
http://thebatavian.com/blogs/howard-owens/report-dont-sell-nursing-home/22779
Support, history of Genesee Justice motivated director to ensure division saved
Ed Minardo will be out of a job come Jan. 1, but Genesee Justice will carry on.
"It was certainly in my mind, 'Not on my watch," Minardo said after learning that County Manager Jay Gsell would recommend to the Legislature that Minardo's plan to cut staff hours and eliminate his own job be approved.
http://thebatavian.com/blogs/howard-owens/support-history-genesee-justice-motivated-director-ensure-division-saved/22777
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Genesee Co. Airport - Good - Genesee Co. Nursing Home - Bad
My friend, Chris Charvella sent this letter today to those who are trying to save the Genesee Co. Nursing Home. I hope anyone who reads this will take action.
Thanks Chris for caring.
Our County Legislature has decided that spending $600,000 on a few new hangars at the county airport is more important than the care of hundreds of people a year at the Genesee County Nursing Home.
The county will be building an 8-bay hangar at the airport with sales tax money it has apparently been squirreling away just for this purpose. How many people will benefit from these new hangar spots, you ask? Eight. That's right, eight people who own their own airplanes will have the privilege of renting space from the county. Meanwhile, Jay Gsell an his merry band of misfits aren't willing to spend dime-one on the care of our elderly and indigent.
Until this point I have done my level best to maintain a tone of civility and promote honest discourse with the people at the highest levels of our county government, but seeing this story tonight has made me believe that it's time to take the gloves off.
We are witnessing hypocrisy in it's finest hour and I've had it up to my ears with the sort of intellectually dishonest legislative process that seems to be the norm here.
I need all of you, not just the CSEA members, and not just the folks involved in politics, but EVERY ONE of you to sit down for five minutes and write a letter to the Daily News in Batavia. It doesn't have to be long; believe it or not, a simple sentence will do the trick. As a matter of fact, let's try an experiment. I want you all to go to the letter submission page on The Daily News site, here's the link:
http://thedailynewsonline.com/forms/letters/
Now copy and paste the following sentence in the letter body field:
Airport: Bad, Nursing Home: Good
Throw in your name and click 'Submit.'
If you can do a simple thing like that to help keep the home public and affordable, I guarantee you that generations of Genesee County residents will thank you and so will I.
Sincerely,
Chris Charvella
Thanks Chris for caring.
Our County Legislature has decided that spending $600,000 on a few new hangars at the county airport is more important than the care of hundreds of people a year at the Genesee County Nursing Home.
The county will be building an 8-bay hangar at the airport with sales tax money it has apparently been squirreling away just for this purpose. How many people will benefit from these new hangar spots, you ask? Eight. That's right, eight people who own their own airplanes will have the privilege of renting space from the county. Meanwhile, Jay Gsell an his merry band of misfits aren't willing to spend dime-one on the care of our elderly and indigent.
Until this point I have done my level best to maintain a tone of civility and promote honest discourse with the people at the highest levels of our county government, but seeing this story tonight has made me believe that it's time to take the gloves off.
We are witnessing hypocrisy in it's finest hour and I've had it up to my ears with the sort of intellectually dishonest legislative process that seems to be the norm here.
I need all of you, not just the CSEA members, and not just the folks involved in politics, but EVERY ONE of you to sit down for five minutes and write a letter to the Daily News in Batavia. It doesn't have to be long; believe it or not, a simple sentence will do the trick. As a matter of fact, let's try an experiment. I want you all to go to the letter submission page on The Daily News site, here's the link:
http://thedailynewsonline.com/forms/letters/
Now copy and paste the following sentence in the letter body field:
Airport: Bad, Nursing Home: Good
Throw in your name and click 'Submit.'
If you can do a simple thing like that to help keep the home public and affordable, I guarantee you that generations of Genesee County residents will thank you and so will I.
Sincerely,
Chris Charvella
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