Suffolk blame game surrounds Foley nursing home

Originally published: July 14, 2013 9:09 PM
Updated: July 14, 2013 10:07 PM
By PAUL LAROCCO paul.larocco@newsday.com

Photo credit: Doug Kuntz | A Suffolk legislative committee on Thursday sent a bill to deny funding to the firm overseeing closure of the John J. Foley Skilled Nursing Facility to the full county legislature, where approval is uncertain.

As he set Suffolk's public nursing home on the path to closing, County Executive Steve Bellone took one last shot early this spring at the controversial privatization that he just couldn't seem to complete.

The main obstacles, as he saw it, were two county legislators, John M. Kennedy Jr. (R-Nesconset) and Kate Browning (WF-Shirley), who appeared to have the trust of employees at the John...

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