{"id":2618,"date":"2010-09-11T07:28:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T11:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2618"},"modified":"2010-09-11T07:28:07","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T11:28:07","slug":"morning-read-watertown-nursing-home-may-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/09\/11\/morning-read-watertown-nursing-home-may-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Watertown nursing home may close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fate of nursing homes is a big deal in the North Country.<\/p>\n<p>Facilities are struggling from Lake Placid to Watertown.\u00a0 Some counties, including Essex and Washington, are wrestling with whether to maintain their government-run senior homes.<\/p>\n<p>Now the <a href=\"http:\/\/watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20100910\/NEWS09\/100919992\">Watertown Daily Times<\/a> is reporting that Mercy of Northern New York has filed a closure plan with the state Department of Health that would force nearly 180 patients to move &#8212; some as far away as Utica.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While Mercy has struggled financially for  years, health care in the community would take a big hit if the facility  closed, said State Sen. Darrel J. Aubertine, D-Cape Vincent.<\/p>\n<p>He is urging the state to find another option.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis  is a difficult situation, but DOH has long been aware of its struggles  and this community is working to address this problem to reach the best  possible outcome for the health of the residents and the jobs this  community needs,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m encouraged that Samaritan has stepped to  the plate here to take receivership and am pressing the DOH to  recognize that we need a bridge to a better solution here.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20100910\/NEWS09\/100919992\">full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fate of nursing homes is a big deal in the North Country. Facilities are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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\/2618"}],"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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2621,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions\/2621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}