Cooperstown Centers Facility Removed From ‘Special Focus’ By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Following two successful surveys, increased staffing and enhanced training, Cooperstown Center has been taken off the list designating the facility, formerly known as Focus Otsego, off the Special Focus Facility list. “Morale is much better,” said Administrator Jeff Emhoff, who is leaving for a new job at Fox Hospital at the end of the week. The facility was put on the list in Jan.…
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Improvements Let ‘Special Monitoring’ Be Lifted At Centers Administrator Jeff Emhof ‘Excited’ Progress Recognized, Oversight Eased By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Cooperstown Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing has achieved improvements that has allowed it to be “graduated” from a federal program that identified deficiencies in the local nursing home. Administrator Jeff Emhof received a letter today from Sheila McGarvey, director of the state Health Department’s Division of Nursing Home Surveillance, notifying him the “Special Focus Facilities” designation…