Van Duyn
Do you think Van Duyn should be managed by a private contractor?
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Skip says:
Profit motivates care. Make it so the entrepreneur risks savings, not so the tax payer risks future debt. Privatize it and everything else. Un-regulate the health-care system allowing for smaller businesses as well as charities to compete. It used to be when people had no where else to turn that churches could pick up the slack. The vampiric regulatory monster (the State) has made that impossible. Legalize freedom.
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diana brownlie says:
I have two dear friends at Van Duyn, and I know Sue Langley personally, as well as some of her background with her son. My mother owned and operated a nursing home, and it had a sterling reputation. But I DO NOT think that this facility should be managed privately. Keep control of it locally, monitoring it continually, and leave the management as it is. It appears to work well. Privatization all too often ends in disaster. The profit motive is NOT paramount. How much profit is enough? As Sue just said on your program, human beings are irreplaceable. Leave well enough alone! Find some other way for the county to stay afloat. For the sake of your county residents, do the right thing.
Best wishes,
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Marie says:
I do not think that Van Duyn should be privatized. I worked at Van Duyn for over 15 years before retiring. I think that Van Duyn gives good care, caring for the patients like they are family. The problem is the government forgetting that our elderly are our forefathers who worked to make this country great. They payed their dues and now when they need care and can’t pay for it who will take care of them. For now they can go to Van Duyn as they take everyone regardless of their ability to pay but if they are taken over that will stop. Yes, they will take the few token cases to say they are doing their part. The poor house will probably have to be opened again, oops that is now called Van Duyn.. mmmmm
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MaryBeth Horton says:
I don’t think Van Duyn should be privatized. I am an employee of Van Duyn and we are suffering from being miss managed ,we are expected to do more with less every day . How can we take care of our residents with less . I don’t understand why we are reimbursed at a lower rate than the private nursing homes are, our residents are the same as theirs,if not worse ,because we can’t turn anyone that we don’t want away. I love my job and my residents and I am not in fear of losing my job as I have a good work record ,but I also have worked there long enough to see things that need to be changed
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Cynthia LaBrake says:
I also think to privatize Van Duyn is a bad idea!! The private sector will cut corners to save money, even more than the County.Staffing numbers,level of patient care, and noone will really oversee them. If they decide it’s not profitable after a while they will close Van Duyn, and who knows where the patients will go? Mr. Rineheart tries to make out that privatization will be a great thing, I don’t think so! Some of us actually care about these patients, and what happens to them – wait till you or a family member needs care, see what you say then!
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susan langley says:
I’d like to thank WCNY for offering the opportunity for Mr. Rinehart and myself to present this important issue to the people of the county, many of whom may need long term care or rehab in the future – and who may not be able to find it as more and more Homes are “rightsized” per the Berger’s commission’s objectives.
Many Thanks!
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Ruth Boshart says:
I agree with Marie and MaryBeth. My husband is a resident at Van Duyn, and has been for almost 3 years. I think the home/hospital should stay as a public facility caring, as they do, for any and all. They do not pick and choose who to admit – or who not to admit. The care there has been exceptional, except for occasional issues. These have all be corrected in a timely mannner. The staff goes above and beyond for all the residents and families.
This was the facility the Nick Pirro chose to care for his Mother – that has to say a lot – he could have gone anywhere. The list of people who have chosen VanDuyn to care for their loved ones goes on and on. Far too many to list here.
I think reimbursement should be raised, not cut. Most of the residents need full time care 24/7 and it takes very special people to manage this. Van Duyn has some of the best.
As for becoming privatised – if it is run as some of the other facilities in the area – we will be losing a valueable resourse in this community. -
Celia says:
I do not think that Van Duyn should be privatized. If privatized, won’t this make it so the acceptance of persons for care can be regulated and refused at certain levels. I believe everyone should be able to recieve the care that they need no matter how indepth the care that they need is. If privatizing make those who work so hard to care for a friend of mine “Jimmy”, get less pay than other nursing homes, then I definantly feel that Van Duyn should NOT be privatized, as I feel “Jimmy” should recieve the best care possible and in a comfortable, clean and a professional environment.
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deborah pichette says:
I agree with marybeth. Why can’t our reimbursment be the same as private homes? Why should the county suffer for taking care of all the “human beings”,as sue said, that nobody else wants. I wouldn’t trade any of our residents for the ones that were excepted in more expensive or more posh type homes. What will happen to the people that private nursing homes don’t want? Will they be on the streets with no one to care for them?? Now that is scary. The county says that they are going to set guidlines for this with whoever takes it over. How can they guarentee that? Shouldnt we ask the taxpapers if they want to pay a little more to help? after all we already do contribute. Why not lobby for better medicaid reimbursement?’
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Stacy Gantt says:
I would like to know how much of the fiscal responsibility of the county will be shifted to the local municipalities. If this budget stands then I expect that the county does indeed have more then enough money to support Van Duyn. If citizens are concerned about property tax increases then they should closely read the budget that was adopted and the impact it will have on them as local property owners…
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Heidi says:
Absolutely NOT. Are you people crazy? I wonder how privatized nursing home care will work out for you and the ones you love?
I do not.