Senator Bill Larkin (R-C, Cornwall-on-Hudson) recently announced that funding cuts in the 2009-2010 State Budget will hurt the nursing home industry throughout Orange and Ulster counties.
“I am adamantly opposed to these cuts. The elderly residents and young adults with disabilities who receive care in the affected nursing homes deserve much better than this,” said Senator Bill Larkin, “It is a shame that New York’s Democratic leadership has decided to balance the budget on the backs of the state’s most vulnerable populations.”
According to the New York Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (NYAHSA), the Healthcare Association of New York (HANYS), and the New York State Health Facilities Association (NYSHFA), “these losses are due to this budget’s reneging on nursing home rebasing as it was agreed upon in 2006, along with the elimination of the trend factor, and the cut in recruitment funding”
Below are estimates of what the nursing home industry in Orange and Ulster counties lost in this year’s budget. Estimates were calculated and compiled by NYAHSA, HANYS, and NYSHFA
Campbell Hall Rehab -$177,500
Elant at Goshen, Inc-359,500
Elant at Newburgh, Inc-488,200
Glen Arden, Inc-40,600
Golden Hill Health Care Center-1,055,400
Hudson Valley Rehabilitation and Extended Care Center-333,000
Montgomery Nursing Home-190,500
Northeast Center for Special Care-1,658,900
Park Manor Rehabilitation and Health Care Center-521,700
Ten Broeck Commons-279,900
The Valley View Center for Nursing Care and Rehab-1,763,600
Wingate of Ulster -311,900
