I just read in the "Tribune" that there will be major cutbacks at Life Spring. This will begin in July due to changes in Indiana Medicaid.
Fifty people will lose their jobs and up to 1,500 patients will lose their coverage.
Personally I think this is a tragedy and I am so sick of cutbacks, I could SCREAM.
2012 Please hurry.
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It's a shame, but it seems that when cutbacks have to be made, they often first affect the people who can least afford it. Life Spring provides a much needed service here--what will these displaced people do?
"2012 Hurry?"
Why 2012? Obama doesn't have anything to do with Medicare cutbacks.
You got that right when it comes to Their Man Mitch. Voting GOP is like a chicken voting Colonel Sanders.
Anon 1:45 please correct me if I am wrong but I thought the Governor's election was 2012 if is next year so much the better.
The Transitional Services has been the hardest hit. A lot of young people now grasping for straws when it comes to apartments, day care, etc.
Scary times indeed for non-profit health agencies.
The need is higher than it ever was before, and the money is becoming harder to obtain.
What scares me the most is the services for those who lifesprings had taken care of will be sent somewhere else, and the only other somewhere else is not capable of handling the surge...
How's that hope and change working for you?
25 days and still no arrest
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Benedetti trail is in the jury's hands. Let's see some real justice now!
oops, trial not trail
btw, how come she didn't take the stand?
Guilty...guilty...guilty!
Cut backs are painful and I don't know what the future will hold in store but following the situation in Europe the past week with regards to Greece the current social/capitalism is not working for them.
During the Health care debate NPR ran stories about how great European Health care was and today they ran stories about how those countries are in debt over their heads and other countries and banks are no longer willing to lend to them.
I don't know what will be the best solution but they are talking about letting Greece and other countries collapse. I hope this is not what is in store for America.
One of the point made is Greece’s debt ratio is identical to America’s the only difference is China is still buying ours. Maybe China owns New Albany’s sewers.
gee with lifesprings cutting back where will all of englands 3rd floor cronies go to get over their depression when they are thrown out next year
after you lose next year shirley maybe you can join them
Hung jury for Benedetti!
Maybe it was the "swill beer" served at lunch, compliments of the Bank Street Brewhouse.
LMFAO
Like Bugs Bunny once said: "What a maroon."
BSB isn't open for lunch on Tuesday.
Hey RemCha: invite us little people to the meeting with England. He only wants to brag about what he has done since becoming mayor(veto smoking ban). You guys just want to feed his ego. We want tough questions asked and answered.
Surely, you would deliver your "swill" for the right price.
Oh that's right, your not in business for the money.
Did I read that some where?
LMFAO
You're using the word "swill" incorrectly, which is what happens to drop-outs who drink too much of it.
RemCha likely will try to get the wee ones to show up, but they likely will not. They don't want to have the sort of conversation that might lead to insight. They just want to scream. RemCha's trying to do a good thing. Hopefully, some of you will see that.
I wonder if the moderation switch can be flipped retroactively?
LMAO
"gee with lifesprings cutting back where will all of englands 3rd floor cronies go to get over their depression when they are thrown out next year"
A "progressive" makes a statement about anyone else that is not in a good light and there is hell to pay.
An anonymous horde card carrier makes a joke about a clinical illness that as much as 50% of the population will one day face (note there is a difference between clinical depression and situational depression), and make fun of the fact that as many as 1500 mentally unwell persons will lose their primary care provider in a regional network that can not absorb them, and that is supposed to be political humor?
Way to stick up for the little people there! Woo Hoo!
on political note from me, as far as how the hope and change is going, it would appear that Mitch and company seized the federal funding for mental health care to pay off budgetary shortfalls elsewhere, not the feds.
Are you now a Clinical Psychologist?
26 days and still no arrest
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It doesn't take a Clinical Psychologist to realize that what happened to Life Spring is a tragedy.
1500 people may be without medical care. There is nothing funny about that.
People who joke about the mentally ill should be ashamed of themselves. Would you joke about cancer patients too?
Anon 9:03
Anyone that wants to come is more than invited.
This first meeting if it ever meets will be more of a listening session on my part. I want to hear what Carl and the Mayor wants to do.
One other thing that I have talked to Carl about was developing a plan for all the houses the city is tearing down. Currently there is no plan for what to do after the demolition.
If you travel through the city you will noticed were a house was town down or burned down and something was built in place that is worse then having a vacant lot.
The cities needs to have a plan to see that something positive happens to these properties so that these properties once again can contribute to paying property taxes and not driving down the general fund.
i'm not sure that i would hold mitch responsible. he can only work with the money the state actually has unlike the feds who can spend money that does not exist.
you cant blame the governor for taking the federal money earmarked for healthcare and given to indiana to administer that oney for healthcare, and he approves taking that money to pay other stuff causing shut downs like this one?
I see no cutbacks in New Albany. Just increase fees, raises and political favors.
Really? I don’t see any political favors going on, I see diminished services, downgrading of equipment, overflow of drainage and sewer systems. Guess we are in different New Albany's.
27 days still no arrest
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We have been overflowing sewers and drainage for too long now. Your New Albany has a glass bottom with a swill ring.
Five years and still no CFA staff.
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Five years and still no evidence.
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Five year and still no tapes.
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this is the only long term solution to flooding.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_urban_drainage_systems
Anom 12:51 thanks for the info on SUDS (I now know the difference between a detention pond and a retention pond).
But seriously, it is good information that we just need to implement.
I didn't know difference between detention and retention ponds either!
One inch of rain on a Wal-Mart sized parking lot generates 250,000 gallons of water that all heads to the sewers at once.
The same amount of water falling on a field takes about a week to flow into the sewers.
Having fewer hard surfaces and more absorbent, permeable surfaces dramatically reduced peak demand after major rainfalls. That reduces flooding.
A tax neutral policy can help, especially towards larger, commercial establishments. A policy that imposes a runoff fee on hard surfaces and maybe gives a tax deduction or credit for installing permeable surfaces, will cause people to think about runoff when building new buildings, driveways, and streets.
It's possible to build a street or a sidewalk that doesn't just funnel water directly to the overloaded ditches and streams. No one is using them in New Albany. It's not because those systems are necessarily more costly. It's just that no one here seems to care and developers and builders are just doing what's easiest.
So we are suppose to do everything Louisville does? Then please tell me why they are laying off employees, and they're broke. Seems like I remember something in C/J there was monies missing also in there recent audit.
Sound familar?
So we are suppose to do everything Louisville does? Then please tell me why they are laying off employees, and they're broke. Seems like I remember something in C/J there was monies missing also in there recent audit.
What is your point?
Storm water is a problem. No matter what happens to the budget, flooding is a problem. If the city did nothing to address flooding, people will sue, our insurance rates will go up, the EPA will enforce fines. We pay one way or the other. Either we fix the problem, we pay a fine, we settle a lawsuit, or we have higher insurance rates. You cant make it not rain and you can't avoid dealing with the problem.
The only question is HOW you deal with it. Are you going to keep doing the same damn thing that doesnt work? Are you going to do nothing, which doesn't work? Or are you going to try something else?
it doesn't cost much to turn a one way street into a two way street, either.
Well ...
New Albany's Walmart* has not one but two detention basins.
Seems like I remember something in C/J there was monies missing also in there recent audit.
Sound familar?
Actually, no, it does not sound familiar.
Our audit by the State Board of Accounts said no money was missing, that nothing illegal had happened.
Stop believing just what you want to believe.
Well ...
New Albany's Walmart* has not one but two detention basins.
Walmart is just an example. 99% of the concrete in this city is from non-Walmarts. Plenty of room to improve.
Walmart is just an example. 99% of the concrete in this city is from non-Walmarts. Plenty of room to improve.
Mmmm, no. Most of NA is connected to storm sewers, but it is fair to say it hasn't been cared for. If you ignore your sewers, they will go away.
Most of New Albany is connected to CREEKS as means of drainage - not stormwater SEWERS with a network of pipes and stormdrains. Also, seems Walmart did not have the 'correct' amount for retention/detention basins and/or locations. Would it measure up to today's standards?
Of course the storm sewers go to creeks. Would it make economic sense to pipe it all the way to the Ohio River? Would YOU pay to do that?
"FRANKFORT, Ky. -- A state audit of Monroe County Fiscal Court has been referred to the FBI.
State Auditor Crit Luallen says the 2009 audit cites several issues related to the construction of the county’s wellness center, including that officials did not follow proper bidding procedures for the project.
Luallen said in a statement Thursday that her office has sent its findings to the FBI.
Monroe County Judge-Executive Wilbur Graves responded in the audit that the Fiscal Court would consider adopting more stringent procedures."
This is what happens when there really is an audit that shows a problem.
Too bad for CFA, New Albany isn't Monroe Co. You think she'd be happy our audit didn't show wrongdoing.
Who we trying to protect, walmart or people getting flooded?
28 days and still no arrest
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Anonymous, if you're so disappointed there's no arrest, when are you going to suggest a solution? Do you support EDIT funds to hire more police?
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