Please know that this closure comes after vigorous attempts to find a way possible to keep the nursing home operational following the end of our 20-year lease and the recent sale of the building to new owners.

We recognize the challenge this situation presents for CCNR’s residents and their families, and the impact on our devoted employees and community. Cabrini is committed to continuing to provide sensitive and high quality care during this transition period. We will dedicate ourselves to assisting residents and families to complete a safe and orderly discharge, whether to a private residence or another nursing facility that can meet their individual needs.

For assistance with transition of a loved one, please call Tatjana Bourgeois, Director of Social Work at (212) 358-6281. For all other inquiries, please call Lorraine Horgan, Vice President of External Affairs at (917) 207-9511.

We thank the families and the community for entrusting us with the care of their loved ones. It has been our privilege to serve the elder care needs of the residents of the Lower East Side.

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 Please send resume to:

Cabrini Care at Home

220 East 19^th Street

New York, N.Y. 10003

(646) 794–4950 fax

 Or visit our website at www.cabrini-eldercare.org to submit resume online.

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 Held at the beautiful Tappan Hill Estates in Tarrytown, N.Y., Hudson Valley Bank, Steve Amigdalos, RPh and Tom Amigdalos RPh of Prime Care Pharmacy Services and Deacon Don Quigley, Coordinator for Retired Priests for the Archdiocese of New York, were honored at Cabrini of Westchester’s 13^th Annual Sharing in Mission Dinner, “An Evening in Paradise.” The honorees were chosen for their dedication to Cabrini of Westchester’s mission which calls on individuals to be leaders, educators, advocates and sponsors of quality services to those in need of care and compassion.

The Sharing in Mission Dinner is Cabrini of Westchester’s largest fundraising event of the year. Dinner proceeds raised will support the various programs and services of Cabrini of Westchester.

Upon arrival at the event, all attendees were welcomed with Lei’s and proceeded to step into an island paradise with palm trees, tropical flowers and a steel drum band. The festivities heightened, as His Excellency Archbishop of New York Timothy M. Dolan arrived, greeting all with a big smile. All were blessed by his presence as he gave the invocation at the start of the evening’s program. 

Reverberations of laughter were also heard throughout the reception hall, as Radio Personality, Mike Bennett from 100.7 WHUD was Emcee as well as unofficial comedian for the event.

A special thanks to all of the evening’s underwriters, sponsors and donors. Your support was the foundation behind the event’s success!

 By Executive Order #5 Governor Cuomo appointed the Medicaid Redesign Team (MRT), a highly qualified team of professionals from insurance, healthcare, government, the legislature, the healthcare workers’ union (1199) and consumer advocates.  He tasked them with reducing cost and increasing the quality and efficiency of the State’s Medicaid program for the 2011-12 fiscal year, meeting his budgeted Medicaid spending target, i.e. reducing Medicaid spending $982 million, “while avoiding across the board rate cuts to providers, institutions, individuals and communities.” Go to the official website for more information on the MRT: www.health.state.ny.us/health_care/medicaid/redesign/ .

 Put briefly, the MRT gathered 4,057 suggestions which were narrowed down to 79 in less than two months. On February 24th, ahead of schedule, they were able to vote in favor of presenting them to the Governor.  Now the 79 recommendations are in the hands of the Senate and Assembly with the April 1^st Budget date looming.

 Medicaid costs taxpayers an enormous amount of money for a variety of reasons: 4.7 million enrollees (increased due to the poor economy and job loss), generous benefits compared to other States, fraud and abuse, inefficiencies, and loopholes.  Reform is needed. Redesign may be needed. The redesign recommended by the MRT is largely not fully developed, or fully understood at this time. Neither those who will require care nor those who will provide it can comprehend the full impact.

 What is known is that although the task of the MRT was to reduce Medicaid spending “while avoiding across the board rate cuts to providers, institutions, individuals and communities,” a recommendation for a 2% across the board reduction in Medicaid payments is on the table for all providers of care. 2% doesn’t sound like much, but against a background of nine rounds of budget cuts since 2007 amounting in $1.5 billion in Medicaid payment cuts to nursing home and home care providers, it is staggering!  The recommendations also eliminate the trend or inflation factor (which has already been eliminated for two years) while the cost of labor, supplies, and services continue to increase.

The Governor promises a budget by April 1st, and although we have advocated against some of the recommendations, there is little doubt that payments will be reduced once again. Continuing to cut services to elders and other special needs populations for whom Medicaid is the primary payor is neither redesign nor reform. It is simply more reductions impacting the most vulnerable and the providers that serve them: home care and day care agencies and nursing homes.

Patricia Krasnausky writes a monthly column in The Rivertown’s Enterprise Newspaper, a local paper in Southern Westchester County, as well as Town and Village, a local paper for New York City’s Lower East Side.

With the start of baseball season, St. Cabrini Nursing Home’s dedicated Dodgers’ fan, resident Sr. Vincent Cecire, MSC, was featured on NPR’s Morning Edition on April 1, 2011.

Click the link below to hear Sr. Vincent’s “home run” interview: 

http://www.npr.org/2011/04/01/135017760/a-nuns-lifetime-devotion-to-the-dodgers

Celebrating 39 years as “Westchester’s hometown bank,” Hudson Valley Bank has grown into a trusted and well respected financial institution. Its 35 branches which span the Hudson Valley, Metropolitan New York area and lower Connecticut provide a full range of quality financial services for individuals, businesses, professional service firms and not-for-profit organizations. Hudson Valley Bank’s comprehensive services and exemplary, personable customer service has earned them the reputation of being successful in cultivating relationships with those whom they serve. This dedication is also present in the Hudson Valley National Foundation. Established by Hudson Valley Bank in 1981, the Foundation supports worthwhile not-for-profit organizations and projects in the communities served by the Bank. Since its inception, more than $5 Million dollars has been distributed to hundreds of organizations and projects benefiting youth groups, hospitals, churches, schools, the handicapped, homeless, cultural institutions and more. Cabrini of Westchester is just one of the many not-for-profit organizations that has benefited from both the bank’s expertise and exemplary services as well as from the Foundation’s generosity.

With the objective of setting a new standard of service in the long term care industry, in 2006, brothers and business partners Steve Amigdalos, RPh and Tom Amigdalos, RPh began Prime Care Pharmacy Services. A long term care pharmaceutical provider, Prime Care provides a variety of quality services including dispensing and delivery of prescriptions. Their state of the art facility and excellent records systems allows Prime Care’s personable and expert staff to provide these services with the highest quality. Under the leadership of Steve and Tom, Cabrini of Westchester has greatly benefited from Prime Care’s services as well as created a wonderful friendship along the way. Prime Care’s generosity and social consciousness has contributed to their growing relationship and helps in Cabrini of Westchester’s mission of caring.

The residents and staff of Cabrini of Westchester were blessed to experience first hand Deacon Don Quigley’s compassionate, personable manner and passion for caring for others. A previous employee of Cabrini of Westchester, Deacon Quigley was the Director of Social Services, and Director of Volunteers/Mission Integration at St. Cabrini Nursing Home. His dedication to serving elders was ever present in these positions and continues in his current role as the Coordinator for Retired Priests for the Archdiocese of New York. For over a decade, Deacon Quigley has been responsible for coordinating a variety services to all retired Archdiocesan Priests including health care, housing, hospital and nursing home placement. Deacon Quigley has successfully combined his career and his vocation as a religious, to better the lives of those in need. 

The 13th Annual Sharing in Mission Dinner, “An Evening in Paradise” Invitation

On March 31, 2011, join Charles Edelson, M.D. of Southern Westchester Orthopedics and Kathleen Birnbaum, PT, Director of Rehabilitation of Cabrini of Westchester, to learn how you can optimize your outcome on your road to recovery with a FREE joint replacement seminar!

The seminar will take place at 4PM at Cabrini of Westchester, 3^rd Floor Board Room, 115 Broadway Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. Refreshments will be served. Spaces are limited, so please call (914) 693-6800 Ext. 502 by March 28th to reserve your seat.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

For more information on the Seminar, click here!