{"id":3282,"date":"2010-11-24T09:07:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T14:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2010-11-29T10:35:49","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T15:35:49","slug":"another-morning-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/11\/24\/another-morning-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Another morning read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/\">Watertown Daily Times<\/a> is reporting another in what&#8217;s likely to be a very long chronicle of the trickle down effects of New York&#8217;s fiscal crisis and challenged economy.<\/p>\n<p>St. Lawrence County&#8217;s Office for the Aging hopes to save $75,000 by cutting\u00a0 a program that helps keep seniors out of nursing homes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The goal of the program, which helps seniors with bathing, errands  and housecleaning, is to keep people in their homes and out of  institutionalized care for as long as possible, thereby keeping Medicaid  costs in check.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have to have a personal-care need to get  the service,&#8221; said Barbara R. McBurnie, Office for the Aging deputy  director. &#8220;We&#8217;ve started a waiting list because we don&#8217;t have enough  funds to service everybody who calls.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The county pays 25 percent of the program&#8217;s cost. New York State kicks in the rest.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s complicated&#8230;County Administrator Karen St. Hiaire told the paper:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;For people who absolutely need it, we&#8217;re absolutely going to provide  the service,&#8221; Ms. St. Hilaire said. &#8220;Do I think it keeps people in their  homes longer? Yes, I do. We&#8217;re just not able to provide services for  everybody who wants them.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the complete story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20101124\/NEWS05\/311249999\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watertown Daily Times is reporting another in what&#8217;s likely to be a very long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}