Hot Topic: Gracedale Nursing Home

I want people to way in on this matter.  This is one of the hottest topics in Northampton County at this time.  I want to see what people think, because I am not sure I know where all the members of County Council stand on this matter.  I am going to provide some information here to get this started.  The following information comes from the county website.  I believe that you will find the "Purpose" section to be confusing and contradictory. 

I will have a follow up post to this later, but wanted to get moving on this conversation since it will be determined in a very short time as to what the county is doing.  Anyone from Gracedale itself is more than encouraged to weigh in on this matter, so that we could have some internal opinions on the matter. 

Gracedale

 

History

Gracedale's origins go back to 1873 when the Northampton County Commissioners purchased the 365 acre farm from the Moravians. In 1951 the Moravian Church of America gave permission to use "Gracedale", the English translation "Gnadenthal", the name given to the original farm established in 1745. Originally the Northampton County Home was designed as dormitory facilities, and the "guest" could come and go as they pleased. Medical services and nursing facilities provided were minimal. The operation of Gracedale has changed significantly over the years.

What Is Gracedale

Gracedale is a county-owned and operated nursing home which is part of the Department of Human Services, and is one of the largest facilities in Pennsylvania. The Gracedale facility is licensed to provide long term nursing care to residents appropriate to their individual needs. Registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, and certified nurses aides provide services under the direction of in-house physicians. Gracedale is administered by a Pennsylvania licensed nursing home administrator.

Purpose

The purpose of Gracedale is to provide quality nursing care in public facility. Gracedale is geared to meet the total needs of the adult resident who cannot be maintained in the community, despite appropriate assistance from multiple agencies. Those who lack the necessary resources for private nursing homes are a priority here. Provisions are made for medical, recreational, emotional, and spiritual needs.

This is Your Blog

People need to understand these days that they have a voice, and that they should use it.  With that being said though, people have jobs that their personal opinions may conflict with.  The reason this blog is anonymous is because of the potential for job loss based on personal opinion.  I am proud of my opinions on all matters that I believe in. 

As you see with me, I am anonymous and I will not take down postings that are anonymous and attack me or this blog.  See, this is the great thing about America.  I have a freedom of opening this blog, and I also have the choice not to have censorship be apart of this.  If someone wants to attack this blog or the author of this blog, I am completely fine with it, because you are simply voicing your opinion. 

Engaging one another will be the purpose of this blog.  I want to see people challenge not only the positions of me the author, but also those who take the time to enter their own postings.  It will take those who enter this blog to spread the site around to others so that this blog can be a location of information.  A place where people can come without fear of stating their beliefs that maybe contrary to others and not have to worry about being persecuted for it.  With everything that is going on these days, people need to understand that this country lives through the people and not anybody else. 

People of this great country have lived as simpletons for far too long, and have been pushed too far by the government itself.  We must take this frustration and put it to good use.  I don't want this blog to be a waste of time or of thoughts either.  The cause that we must stand for is that of truth and integrity.  At this time, I don't believe either of this are present on our Northampton County Council.  People may disagree with that, but I am willing to have that debate, even if that means with BO. 

"People will never be defined by the thoughts that consumed their life, but only those thoughts in which they were courageous enough to act upon."  Unknown Author

Politicians We Vote For

Northampton County Council

District 1-City of Bethlehem, Hellertown and Hanover-Ann McHale, Democrat

District 2-Easton, Forks, Glendon, Palmer, Stockertown, Tatamy, West Easton, Wilson and
Williams-Michael Dowd, Republican

Distric 3-Allen, Bath, Bethlehem Township, East Allen, Freemansburg, Lower Nazareth, Lower Saucon, Nazareth, North Catasaqua and Northampton-Lamont McClure, Democrat

District 4-Bangor, Bushkill, Chapman, East Bangor, Lehigh, Lower Mt. Bethel, Moore, Pen Argyl, Plainfield, Portland, Roseto, Upper Mt. Bethel, Upper Nazareth, Walnutport, Washington, Wind Gap- Ron Angle, Republican

At Large Council Members-Margaret Ferraro, John Cuisick, Thomas Dietrich, Bruce Gilbert, Barbara Thierry

State Representatives and Senators

Patrick M Browne, Republican for the 16th Senatorial District

Lisa Boscola, Democrat for the 18th Senatorial District

Rob Wonderling, Republican for the 24th Senatorial District

Jame Rhoades, Republican for the 29th Senatorial District

Karen D Beyer, Republican for the 131st District

Joseph Brennan, Democrat for the 133rd District

Steve Samuelson, Democrat for the 135th District

Robert Freeman, Democrat for the 136th District

Richard Grucela, Democrat for the 137th District

Craig Dally, Republican for the 138th District

Julie Harhart, Republican for the 183rd District

These are the way the current politicians are set up.  These will be updated any time that there is a change.  In some of these cases, that will happen shortly.  The intent of this posting is to get people to understand who is controlling their lives.  If we don't know who is representing us, how can we possibly change the way in which they represent us.

What is Wrong with Politics?

This blog is meant to be a forum for constructive debate.  There will not be an agenda pushed from the host of the blog itself, but rather it will give you information so that you the people may have a forum to debate one another on.  The information here in will be accurate and educational, rather than fabricated and fictional. 

The problem with politics these days are the agenda of the people who are in office.  The blog will talk about many levels of politics from the federal level, state level, county level and local level matters.  We will heavily focus on local level politics or those that involve Northampton County.  Again, we will not push an agenda other than that of informing you the people of what you need to know in order to make a better educated opinion on a matter.  We will post all party responses, whether it be Republican, Democrat, Independent, Tea Party or any other party affiliation. 

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