I wonder why there hasn’t been any public announcement that the Adult Care Center (ACC) in Liberty, NY is not accepting any new patients. 

The ACC is a county-owned nursing home, and I think that the county owes the taxpayers some sort of notification.  People are still hoping and trying to have their disabled loved ones admitted there. It would be better for them to know that the ACC is not currently admitting any patients than to add to their frustrations.  

The reason for this freeze on admissions is that the ACC is currently undergoing a Complaint Survey, which has placed the facility into the category of “Immediate Jeopardy.”  

Whether or not admissions will resume, it must be obvious that things at the ACC have gone from bad to worse.  The census there is now 98, in a facility with 140-plus beds. 

I believe that the staffing situation there is their worst problem, and seems at least to the management and their consultant there, to be impossible to fix. They seem to have no plan to address the re-establishment of a stable, long-term staff. 

I hope that the Sullivan County Legislature will consider solutions such as increased marketing and providing incentives for hiring for county positions there, similar to what was offered during the pandemic, rather than just continuing to passively watch the facility’s decline. This is a situation that concerns all Sullivan County residents, who are paying for the mismanagement of the facility.

Lise Kennedy
Neversink, NY