{"id":13986,"date":"2014-01-02T13:10:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T18:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=13986"},"modified":"2014-01-02T13:10:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T18:10:40","slug":"essex-county-still-owns-horace-nye-nursing-home-for-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2014\/01\/02\/essex-county-still-owns-horace-nye-nursing-home-for-the-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Essex County still owns Horace Nye Nursing Home, for the moment"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Senior<\/a>

Senior residents at Horace Nye listening to a debate over the future of their nursing home in 2012. NCPR file Photo: Brian Mann<\/p><\/div>\n

Happy New Year! And man is it a cold one so far, with current temps in our area ranging from -12 in Canton all the way up to a balmy 2 above in North Creek . But the news marches on, chattering teeth or no.<\/p>\n

In the news today, the Plattsburgh (temp: -11) Press Republican is reporting that, for the moment, Essex County is continuing to have possession of the Horace Nye Nursing Home,<\/a> in Elizabethtown (-8), which it had planned to hand off to the private company Specialty Care of the Bronx on Jan. 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The decision to privatize the nursing home was controversial and the discussion contentious<\/a>, but Essex County supervisors voted in June of 2012 to sell Horace Nye<\/a> to that company for just over $4 million. The transfer’s been delayed, the paper reports, because the company has created to local corporations to administer the home and associated real estate, and they need to be added to the agreement Specialty Care of the Bronx made with the county. County Manager Daniel Palmer told the paper that it looks like the transfer will take place around Jan. 31.<\/p>\n

\"E.J.<\/a>

E.J. Noble nurses protest the planned dissolution of the hospital in Sept., 2013. NCPR file photo: Sarah Harris<\/p><\/div>\n

In a related story, E.J. Noble Hospital of Gouverneur (-9) is now Gouverneur Hospital<\/a>. The changover took place on Jan. 1, and spokesperson Rebecca J. Faber said the transition would be “seamless:” “Patient care will not be interrupted. Patients should notice no change…The difference people will experience will be in the new hospital\u2019s and system\u2019s focus on quality, efficiency and cost-effectiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Employees commemorated the change with a time capsule and a small private ceremony. Some items associated with the hospital are going to the Gouverneur Museum.<\/p>\n

Some employees of E.J. Noble won’t remain at the new Gouverneur Hospital<\/a>; you may remember that E.J. Noble Hospital was closed by the state for a period of time in 2012 after the state Health Department found problems in its lab<\/a>, and made the decision to dissolve and join with Canton-Potsdam Hospital in a two-hospital system<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy New Year! And man is it a cold one so far, with current temps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13986"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13996,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13986\/revisions\/13996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}