Albany County

Conners Knew His Staff Abused IT System Privileges Long Before Social Security Number Release

September 24, 2012 County Government

In addition to a looming tax increase and other financial challenges, its inability to set a sensible direction on long-term care, Albany County, New York has been suffering from County Comptroller Mike Conners’s release of Social Security numbers (SSNs) of staff of the District Attorney. There’s been some confusion about the sequence of events, but […]

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Key Vote Unanimous to Disapprove New Albany County Nursing Home

September 20, 2012 County Government

Key committee of Public Health and Health Planning Council (PHHPC) voted unanimously a short time ago to disapprove Albany County’s application to build a new nursing home. More details later.

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The Albany Times Union Offers the County Executive Some Advice

September 20, 2012 County Government

Time to put on your big boy pants, Danny: Face reality, Mr. McCoy – Times Union Editorial (perhaps I’m taking a liberty here, but in its entirety): THE ISSUE: The state shows every sign of denying the county’s quest to build a new nursing home. THE STAKES: The elderly, especially those who are poor, still […]

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Quotes of the Day on the Albany County Nursing Home

September 20, 2012 County Government

A couple of reactions to the latest Albany County attempt to build a new nursing home. Perhaps we’ll get into details later, but the only real change from the last version of the County’s application to the latest revision is an increased revenue estimate because they think the managed long-term care changes the State is […]

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Strike 3 on a New Albany County Nursing Home?

September 17, 2012 County Government

Will get to the substance in a later posting. But this is verbatim from the State Health Department’s recommendation to the Public Health and Health Planning Council. Albany County Nursing Home, a 250-bed county owned residential health care facility (RHCF), requests approval to construct a 200-bed replacement facility and certify a 30-slot adult day health […]

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Albany County Files its 2011 Annual Financial Report – Late

September 13, 2012 Accounting

EMMA, the Electronic Municipal Market Access operated by the Municipal Security Rulemaking Board reported that Albany County had filed its Annual Financial Report late. In the municipal securities business, this is referred to as a “material event,” which are “municipal bond issuer information considered to be significant by a reasonable investor”. See the attached notice, […]

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Albany County: Where Poor Politics and Poor Management Come Together

September 9, 2012 County Government

As we head toward this coming week’s primary, a controversy has boiled over in Albany County District Attorney’s race. And rightly so. Attorney Lee Kindlon is challenging the incumbent, David Soares. Initially the controversy was about an allegedly “secret” bonus program, supplementing the pay of some employees in the District Attorney’s Office. The controversy boiled […]

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Albany County Invited Everyone to a Nursing Home Party but No One’s Coming?

August 4, 2012 County

We’ve been waiting for Albany County to reveal what responses they got to their RFP’s regarding sale or management of the Albany County Nursing Home. The Times-Union grew impatient and filed a FOIL request. Here’s the TU’s story on what they learned. There were no bids to buy the facility and only one bid to […]

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Friday Afternoon Before a Holiday

May 25, 2012 Cash

Always release bad news late Friday before a holiday weekend. Right? Just a few minutes after posting about New York counties, including Albany, needing to repay the Federal government for excess payments received for their nursing homes, Albany County finally sent an update of their cash position. First look? Not as bad as it might […]

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Albany County. Once Again Between a Nursing Home Rock & a Nursing Home Hard Place

May 22, 2012 County Government

Albany County Legislators are frustrated. They want to build a new nursing home, but they’ve bungled it repeatedly so they’re in a “no-man’s land” in the approval process. At the same time, Federal regulations require all Federally qualified nursing homes to have sprinklers by August of 2013. The only exception to the rule is when […]

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