Heading into the vote on whether or not to sell the Nursing Home may come down to who is on the board and how a vacancy will affect the vote. From today's News-Gazette:
Champaign County officials are researching exactly how many votes are needed to approve a sale of the county nursing home since a vacancy on the board will not be filled before that vote is taken.More on that at the full article here and the Cheat Sheet post on the disagreement on the recent vacancy appointment vote here (with update) here.
Weibel said Tuesday that he will defer the seating of the new board member until next month. In the wake of that decision, he has asked State's Attorney Julia Rietz to look into whether the vacancy affects the vote set Thursday on selling the nursing home.
If the board has all 22 members present, it would take 15 votes to approve the sale.
The Champaign County Health Care Consumers had a press conference in response to the County Board's information packet (update and ADDITIONAL information packet here too now) that attempted to shoot down concerns about the process and potential buyer (available here). The press conference is available on the Champaign County Health Care Consumer's YouTube page here. It references their research on the potential buyers linked here: Research on bidder for Champaign County Nursing Home and here: IDPH Quarterly Reports on Safety Violations for Extended Care Clinical, LLC Facilities.
WCIA had coverage and a video segment here for those short on time for the full hour press conference. Excerpts below:
The group says it's not against selling the home, just not to the current interested buyers. It's a joint bid between Extended Care Clinical and Altitude Health Service. Both are owned by father and son, William and Eric Rothner.More information at the Nursing Home page here, all Nursing Home related posts on the Cheat Sheet available here, and more information about the upcoming County Board meeting here.
CCHCC says the county board is under extreme financial pressure to sell the home for the asking price of $11 million, but it has serious concerns with the buyers.
On the eve of the vote to sell CCNH, CCHCC is raising some concerns.
"We have done extensive research into the quality of care for Rothner companies."
More than 60-hours of research laid on the table from the Illinois Department of Health, explaining why CCHCC thinks the only bidder isn't equipped.
"Almost every single case that has led to this problem haws ben because of short staffing in the nursing home."
They say the Rothners have had thousands of problems with their other nursing homes, including closures and, just because they're a big operator, doesn't mean they'll do better.
Jack Anderson is on the county board and says that's not true. They were given facts and have talked with the potential buyers.
"At the end of the day, this company rates much better than a lot of the other companies out there providing services for nursing homes."
[Original posted on 5/23/2018 at 7:16pm]
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