Nursing Home Public Hearing - UPDATE

[UPDATE - CHANGE OF VENUE - Due to concerns about accessibility at the IMC the State board has changed the venue to the Hyatt Center. From Today's News-Gazette:

Public hearing moved to Hyatt Place
A state board acted swiftly to change the location of a public hearing on the sale of the Champaign County Nursing Home after concerns were raised about the first spot chosen.

Next month’s hearing will now be at the Hyatt Place Hotel at 217 N. Neil St., C, according to Courtney Avery, administrator of the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board...

The hearing time remains the same — from 2-4 and 5-7 p.m. Sept. 13.

Testimony taken at the hearing will be considered by the state board at its next session Oct. 30.

Full article here at the eEdition. More on the concerns about the IMC location in yesterday's paper in an article available here.]

We're approaching the final steps and final opportunities for public input for the sale of the Nursing Home that is a near certainty at this point. From the News-Gazette today:

State board sets public hearing on sale of county nursing home for Sept. 13
A state board plans to spend four hours hearing public testimony in Urbana next month about the pending $11 million sale of the Champaign County Nursing Home.

The hearing before the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board has been scheduled for 2 to 4 p.m. and 5 to 7 p.m. Sept. 13 at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, 202 S. Broadway, U...

Terms of the July 23 agreement between the county and Altitude Acquisitions LLC call for the Urbana facility to continue to be a used as a 220-or-more-bed nursing home through 2027. Also through that date, at least half the licensed beds must be reserved and certified for Medicaid-managed eligible patients and priority must be given to county residents for admission.

The sale is being brought before the state Health Facilities and Services Review Board because the board has legal oversight over certain medical facility construction projects and certain health facility sales and closures, among them the sale of a county-owned nursing home.

The hearing in Urbana will precede an Oct. 30 board session in Bolingbrook at which the proposed nursing home sale will be considered.

More information at the full article, including a potential new name indicated in the paperwork, here.


[Originally posted on 8/23/2018 at 10:16am.]