Lockport hospital pursues psych unit - Business First of Buffalo:

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The project review committee of the State Hospital Review and Planning Council is expected to consider the certificate of need application at its Marchh19 meeting. Lockport part of , plans to locate the unit in spac formerly occupied byits 7,580-square-foot pediatric medical unit. The original application was filed with the statwein July. Total project cost is estimated at most of which would be covered by a statd grant ofnearly $1.7 million awardex through the Health Care Efficiency and Affordability Law for New Yorkersz (HEAL NY) program. The remainder of the award is beingy used toward an adult inpatient psychiatric unit to be completexd inthe future.
According to a summary of the hospital’x application, the 12-bed program will help fill a gap left when a simila unit was shut down last May acrose the countyat , which had been the county’s only inpatient providef of behavioral health services. In the months since, teenagers who requires inpatient services were transportedto . Children age 12 and youngetr were treated atin Buffalo. Niagaras Falls Memorial blamed inadequate Medicaid reimbursements on the closure of its Bridgezs Child and Adolescent Inpatient BehavioralHealth unit. The unit treatedf about 360 youngstersper year.
Lockport Memorial projectes the unit will ultimately operates inthe black, estimating a year three budgeyt of $2.6 million with expensesd of $1.6 million. All construction and progra changesat health-care facilitieas and nursing homes in New York requirw approval through the state’s certificate-of-need If the project review committee approves the the application will go to the full councik early next month.