Chautauqua County’s top elected official is expressing concern over the pending loss of another nursing home in the county, but adds that other local facilities should have enough capacity for those residents. County Executive P.J. Wendel says he reached out to the McGuire Group, which recently announced plans to close the Absolut of Westfield on October 20th after failing to come to a new lease agreement with its landlord…
P.J. Wendel: there will be other local places
Wendel says the problem is people were blindsided by the fact the McGuire Group filed a notice with the New York State Department of Health, but it wasn’t until Absolut confirmed the closing that it was made public. Medicaid reimbursements have long been an issue for local nursing homes, and Wendel says that’s why an estimated 5,000 people in the county receiving it should not be…..