CDPAP ENROLLMENT: More than 209,000 users and 203,000 workers within the state’s consumer-directed personal assistance program, a home care program that allows users to hire friends or family members as caregivers, have registered with the company that took over payroll processing on April 1, the Department of Health said Monday. The state is approaching a court-ordered June 6 deadline to get all active home care users and workers enrolled in its new payroll processing system, which is being managed by the Georgia-based company Public Partnerships LLC. Though roughly 280,000 home care users were enrolled in the program before the transition, 75,000 have switched into an alternative home care service, the Health Department said. The new enrollment numbers come as attorneys representing home care recipients asked a federal judge on Thursday to further delay the transition deadline until August 15, citing continued challenges with registration and incorrect payments to workers, according to the New York Legal Assistance Group.
NYP LAYOFFS: Seventy nurses are set to be laid off from New York-Presbyterian’s Columbia Irving Medical Center, Brooklyn Methodist Hospital and Hudson Valley Hospital as a part of a systemwide workforce reduction announced earlier this month, the New York State Nurses Association said Monday. Steve Corwin, CEO of New York-Presbyterian, told staff in early May that the health system would lay off 2% of its workforce or roughly 1,000 employees, and the hospital cited “current macroeconomic realities and anticipated challenges ahead” as the reason for the cuts. Angela Karafazli, a spokeswoman for New York-Presbyterian, did not answer a question about when the hospital is beginning to lay off workers, but said “where possible, we are working closely with impacted team members to identify similar roles that individuals can be placed in or hired for.”
