MONROE - Any referendum to support Pleasant View Nursing Home would have to be proposed by the Green County Finance Committee.
The Green County Pleasant View Nursing Home Committee this week discussed presenting the Finance Committee with numbers in the event a referendum is needed.
Green County board member Tim Davis, who is also a member of the nursing home committee, said Friday the committee hasn't looked into the possibility of a referendum or the idea to present financial information to the finance committee for it to determine the need for a referendum.
Finance committee chairman Harvey Mandel said the Finance Committee will begin its budget process in September. The committee hasn't discussed the need for a referendum to help cover the cost to operate the nursing home.
In 2008, Pleasant View Nursing Home had a deficit of about $900,000.
Nursing home committee chairman Herb Hanson said the county residents he's talked to don't want to see the county lose its nursing home. However, the state hasn't made it easy to operate county nursing homes.
"There are no statutes that require counties to operate nursing homes," Hanson said.
Hanson said Pleasant View's financial problems aren't unique. About 30 county nursing homes in the state face the same problems.
This isn't' the first time this year the nursing home committee has discussed Pleasant View's financial troubles
In January, Brian Schoeneck, financial services director for the Wisconsin Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, told the Pleasant View Nursing Home Committee that public nursing homes, such as Pleasant View, generate millions of dollars for the state from the federal government every year. However, the state doesn't reimburse the county homes as much as it should and uses the money for its Medicaid Trust Fund deficits.
Schoeneck has worked with nursing homes for about 30 years.
Schoeneck told the committee that nursing homes don't receive enough money for Medicaid patients. Medicaid residents are in nursing homes for a longer period of time and require more assistance, he said.
About 70 percent of Pleasant View's residents receive Medicare. About 20 percent of the nursing home's residents are diagnosed with dementia, have complex medical needs and are Medicaid residents other nursing homes won't accept.
Schoeneck said the state allows nursing homes to spend $43.86 in those services every day, but Pleasant View spends $57.12 every day.
The Green County Pleasant View Nursing Home Committee this week discussed presenting the Finance Committee with numbers in the event a referendum is needed.
Green County board member Tim Davis, who is also a member of the nursing home committee, said Friday the committee hasn't looked into the possibility of a referendum or the idea to present financial information to the finance committee for it to determine the need for a referendum.
Finance committee chairman Harvey Mandel said the Finance Committee will begin its budget process in September. The committee hasn't discussed the need for a referendum to help cover the cost to operate the nursing home.
In 2008, Pleasant View Nursing Home had a deficit of about $900,000.
Nursing home committee chairman Herb Hanson said the county residents he's talked to don't want to see the county lose its nursing home. However, the state hasn't made it easy to operate county nursing homes.
"There are no statutes that require counties to operate nursing homes," Hanson said.
Hanson said Pleasant View's financial problems aren't unique. About 30 county nursing homes in the state face the same problems.
This isn't' the first time this year the nursing home committee has discussed Pleasant View's financial troubles
In January, Brian Schoeneck, financial services director for the Wisconsin Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, told the Pleasant View Nursing Home Committee that public nursing homes, such as Pleasant View, generate millions of dollars for the state from the federal government every year. However, the state doesn't reimburse the county homes as much as it should and uses the money for its Medicaid Trust Fund deficits.
Schoeneck has worked with nursing homes for about 30 years.
Schoeneck told the committee that nursing homes don't receive enough money for Medicaid patients. Medicaid residents are in nursing homes for a longer period of time and require more assistance, he said.
About 70 percent of Pleasant View's residents receive Medicare. About 20 percent of the nursing home's residents are diagnosed with dementia, have complex medical needs and are Medicaid residents other nursing homes won't accept.
Schoeneck said the state allows nursing homes to spend $43.86 in those services every day, but Pleasant View spends $57.12 every day.