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November 28, 2009
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Rehabilitation Program at Adirondack Tri-County Nursing Home growing
The rehabilitation program at the Adirondack Tri-County Nursing Home has significantly grown in recent months. Pictured here are Jeanine Lawler OTR, Diana Dymond-Burns PT, Sarah Deane DPT, Amanda Savarie PTA and Christy Yaddow PTA. (Missing from picture, Becky Pelton SLP and Patty Elmen OTR).
Milda Burns of North River shares the history of her logging family to Newcomb Central School Superintendent Skip Hults and NCS students. These students have been learning about the Adirondack logging industry for several weeks. Photo by Lindsay Yandon
Photo by Lindsay Yandon
By Lindsay Yandon lindsay@denpubs.com NORTH CREEK — The rehabilitation program at the Adirondack Tri-Country Nursing Home in North Creek made a transition in July and became an entity of RehabCare Group out of St. Louis, Missouri. The changes associated with the move have come to the surface over the past few weeks and the program has been reaping the benefits. Before RehabCare Group, the physical therapy program was operated by the nursing home itself. The management changes allowed for added support and resources from within a larger network of health care providers. RehabCare Group is a leader in the fields of physical rehabilitation and management services. They are made up of 1,200 hospitals, nursing facilities and other long-term care facilities throughout the United States. RehabCare Group is dedicated to the vision of providing a clinically integrated continuum of post-acute care that helps people regain their lives. “They were able to add a lot of services that we otherwise couldn’t have provided,” said program director Diana Dymond-Burns. “We were also able to make several new hires from a pool of local applicants.” Dymond-Burns said she considers this transition to be a positive addition to local communities. With the addition of staff members, more inpatient and outpatient services are available including speech and occupational therapy. “Now that we offer more, local patients will no longer have to travel for their therapy — they can come to the nursing home for treatment,” said Dymond-Burns. “There is a demand in the local community for more types of therapy like occupational and speech.” The rehabilitation program now offers all disciplines of therapy on a more consistent basis. Their emphasis has been
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County leaders wrangle over more budget cuts More support seen for sales tax hike By Thom Randall
a formal presentation of the spending plan by Geraghty. He presented a budget calling for a QUEENSBURY — It’s “crunch time” 10.8 percent increase, but said that infor the Warren County supervisors as crease would be cut by another they are now making the final reduc- $281,000 due to changes made after the budget document was prepared tions to the 2010 county budget, and their budget officer is requesting they due to corrections in calculations, bringing the tax put politics aside to hike down to 10.1 decide on final cuts before the spending We're trying to fix the percent. Monday, Gerplan is filed with the car by throwing more aghty said the state. board would be Monday, county parts out.....It's getting able to trim it down Budget Officer to the point the car to get the tax hike Kevin Geraghty below 10 percent, challenged his fel- won't be able to run. — Dan Girard which sounded low supervisors to more palatable to come forward with all. specific reductions, instead of merely posturing about Friday, Queensbury Supervisor Dan slashing a projected tax increase of Stec kept arguing for more cuts, and 10.1 percent by about half. for setting a specific target for an esti“It’s not enough to just say ‘get it mated 2010 tax increase. Stec and down to 5 percent,’ — the guys calling Queensbury at-large supervisor Fred for additional cuts have to put in more Champagne said they'd support a effort,” he said. “There’s no more lowbudget with a 5 or 6 percent increase. hanging fruit.” As in the past, arguments erupted Warren County supervisors unaniover whether a 1 percent sales tax inmously decided not to adopt a tentacrease should be imposed. Lake tive 2010 county budget Friday, after
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Susan Duell, a resident of Countryside Adult Home in Warrensburg, pets a dog named Sadie that lived with the residents for a while until it was booted out for being somewhat too frisky. Warren County’s budget cuts have reduced staffing at Countryside substantially, and until recently, supervisors have talked about closing the facility to save money. Photo by Thom Randall