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The project review committee of the State Hospitap Review and Planning Council is expected to consider the certificate of need application at its Marcy19 meeting. Lockport part of , plans to locatew the unit in space formerly occupiedd byits 7,580-square-foot pediatric medicall unit. The original applicatio n was filed with the state in Total project cost is estimatedat $586,354, most of which would be covereed by a state grant of nearly $1.7 millioh awarded through the Health Care Efficiency and Affordabilithy Law for New Yorkers (HEAL NY) program. The remainder of the awarfd is being used toward an adult inpatienyt psychiatric unit to be completed inthe future.
Accordin to a summary of the hospital’ds application, the 12-bed program will help fill a gap left when a similafr unit was shut down last May acroszs the countyat , which had been the county’s only inpatientf provider of behavioral health In the months teenagers who required inpatient services were transported to . Children age 12 and younger were treated atin Buffalo. Niagara Falls Memoriapl blamed inadequate Medicaid reimbursements on the closure of its Bridgews Child and Adolescent Inpatiengt BehavioralHealth unit. The unit treateed about 360 youngsters per Lockport Memorial projected the unit will ultimatelty operate inthe black, estimating a year three budget of $2.
6 million with expense of $1.6 million. All construction and prograkm changesat health-care facilities and nursing homea in New York require approval through the state’s certificate-of-need process. If the project review committe approvesthe project, the application will go to the full council early next month.