County Board Meeting and Nursing Home Issues

The Nursing Home will be a hot topic at tonight's County Board meeting (agenda here). A preview from today's News-Gazette:

Back on the table: Offer to lease wing of nursing home
A lease agreement for an unused portion of the Champaign County Nursing Home is back on the agenda of the Champaign County Board tonight.

The agreement to lease a wing at the nursing home to Rosecrance Health Systems for $16,860 a month was postponed two weeks ago over questions raised by the Illinois Department of Public Health.

There apparently are still unresolved questions, County Administrator Deb Busey said Monday.

"Every time we provide information to them, there's another piece of information that they want to have," she said. "It's been a slow process."

Under the plan, Rosecrance would lease the "Stadium View" wing of the nursing home for six months, beginning April 1 or the date the county "receives approval from the Illinois Department of Public Health, whichever occurs later."

More information in the full article here. This is following up on the special meeting (post and write up here). It goes into some details of the Nursing Home's debts to vendors and issues that'll come up tonight in making sure the requirements to retain their services are met via further money from the County's general corporate fund.

It also had a quick information update on the single bid to purchase the Nursing Home:

Meanwhile, a special committee evaluating the single offer to purchase the nursing home — for $11 million from Extended Care Clinical LLC and Altitude Health Services Inc., both of Evanston — has scheduled meetings for next week to begin reviewing the proposal and possibly touring facilities operated by the companies.

The timeline for assessing the offer calls for making it available to the full county board by April 24, along with a special meeting on May 1 to interview officials from the company.

The evaluation committee is scheduled to make a recommendation on the deal to the county board no later than May 17, with a possible county board vote on the sale May 24.