Muller and Lehigh County Commissioners have sparred over the nursing home.But according the Commissioner Vic Mazziotti, the prognosis is good. On Thursday, he told Lehigh Valley Business that he'd like to renovate or rebuild the existing 451-bed facility. He's been critical of housing four residents to a single room, and would prefer to see two to a room, with bathroom access.
Muller has accused both Mazziotti and Commissioner Lisa Scheller as supporting Cedarbrook's sale, a charge that both deny.
What amazes me is how Lehigh Valley state legislators turn a blind eye to the very real financials crisis facing publicly owned nursing homes in both Lehigh and Northampton County.
Tom Killion, a State representative from Montgomery County, has introduced legislation that could make more Medicaid reimbursements available. In Northampton County, that would translate to about $2.5 million per year, and my guess is that a similar sum would go to Cedarbrook.
To date, the following Lehigh Valley State Representatives have NOT signed on as sponsors: Gary Day, Ryan Mackenzie, Steve Samuelson, Pete Schweyer and Justin Simmons.
I should point out that sometime between my irst story about this house bill and now, Mike Schlossberg did sign on. Geoff Brace, who works for Schlossberg, is a Lehigh County Commissioner and should have been pushing the matter long before I did. Lehigh County Commissioners have yet to adopt a resolution calling on the their local state house delegation to sponsor this important bill.
It never made sense why a private nursing home would receive higher reimbursement rates than a public nursing home. Reimbursement rates and quality of care expectations should be equal.
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ReplyDeleteLisa Scheller loves the little people on the plantation.
ReplyDeleteRid the country and its taxpayers of old folks,
theu are such a money pit.
Geoff Brace is an asshole among assholes.
ReplyDeleteOf all the cheerleaders he is one of the most pathetic.
6:38, If you want to post a comment, don't fill it with dead space. That is why you are deleted.
ReplyDeleteOutstanding photo/mime!
ReplyDeletesure wish Tom Creighton could convince his boss, Gary Day, to sign on to that bill.
ReplyDeleteI was unaware Creighton works for Day. That is incredible!
ReplyDeleteBrace is a bad joke, a first rate toady.
ReplyDeleteIt's time to take a closer look at Jenifer Mamn,
that one promising legislator who became a major NIZ player and a caricature of a soulless sold out vacuous political shell.
These two creeps bookend the Boy Representatives and both deserve closer scrutiny.
They are, to use a turn of a phrase MM has recently adopted, how you say," pieces of shit".
I saw Jenn Mann a few nights ago holding court at the Hamilton. As a freshman she looked so promising.
ReplyDeleteThe whole scene made me want to puke.
That'll be my first and last trip to that pretentious shit hole.
Give Brace a few years.
ReplyDeleteHe's on track to be at least as pathetic a party operative as Jennifer M.
My only real criticism of Geoff was on this issue, and he appears to have acted. I suspect your disdain is prompted by the fact that he is a Democrat.
ReplyDeleteOn the contrary, I'm a lifelong Lehigh Co. Dem., at times an active one. I'm also outraged by what has been happening in Allentown these last years and. nauseated by punk ass cheerleaders like Brace.
ReplyDeleteAfter 40 years as a D I registered Independent last year. I couldn't belong to a party with the likes of Ed, Jenn, Brace and the dick wads on City Council any longer.
They make me ill.
Long live Jeanette!!!!!
A true inspiration.
Then I stand corrected. Although Brace comes fro the School of Mann, I have always found him to be thoughtful and more interested in helping people like the others. I hope he has not been poisoned.
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