have you finding yourself sitting in front of your computer thinking of someything to do and coming up with a big ole blank. I often find mysel wanting to create something that can save me time in the future. sounds weird but lets try one.
Lets create a folder tree based on the claneder that we can copy and paste later into any folder structure later.
Blog Fade is a comon problem for bloggers . It is where you run out of things to put on your blog to keep peoples interested in reading what you write. It also is where you the writer seem to loose the desire to post things on your own blog
This morning my friend Celeste got me to read a couple of posts that she wrote and it in turn motivated me to write on mine. It’s funny how that works. Another cool thing is that I am finding some great changes that wordpress made to its interface.
Paul messing with me cause he changed himself to look more like me
I am sitting at PROS waiting for my next group o begin. My head is scrambled because I am enjoying some of the groups and benefiting from them but at the same time I hate the fact that I am forced to play all sorts of stupid games.
So much of this is about control and pissing order it sickens me. I have the cleaning staff barking at me for bringing a cup of coffee out of the cafeteria. You see they have these general rules around her in that if someone cant do something like balance a cup of coffee then no one is allowed to do it.
Then today I have one of the staff people telling me I am in a bad place because I am in a wheelchar and may block other peoples access. As soon as I moved someone stood in my former spot and nothing was said. So is it because I am in a chair but can move just as easy as a sting person or is it because this clinician is establishing his place on the pissing order with me.
All these egos and yet I know that in the near future wuth these health homes that a few of them are not going to have a job and then what will th pissing order mean to them. I feel sorry for them but a little part of me say ” how does that feel.”
It would do them all a world of good to re-evaluate their priorities and goals as an agency and stop playing games. I was talking with a friend today and he is predicting that Ellis hospital will hand over the responsibility for mental health services to a HMO within 5 yrs and from what I ma seeing I think it will happen within 3 yrs.
I wont miss the head games but I will miss the groups that I found interesting. Right now I am having a tough time staying mentally involved with pros because in my mind because I dont know when the axe will drop and I dont want to deal with the emotional loss. The other side of that coin is the fact that I am enjoying the groups that I attend and I am becoming attach to them and the people in them (including the clinician running them).
I am doing a lot of reading on these health homes where a private company is offering package deals that further reduce services to the mentally ill. Its not pretty. As soon as I get an understanding of it I will share more here.
[click title to read entire blog post] I just wok up from my tiresome day and it’s three in the morning. I have been up for a little while mostly just thing and writing. I have a bunch of garbage on my mind and it is leaking into a constant stream of thoughts. I attended PROS yesterday and that was pretty good. I had the opportunity to talk with Holly and she helped me put some things in the right perspective.
So let’s start with PROS and work our way forward from there.
I was privy to a conversation with Paul Arlene (director of MH services where I go) and listened where he did a great job of explaining to a PROSumer what had happen surrounding the termination of a position of another PROSumer’s position as a staff member at the treatment site. By terminating the position it is causing a ripple effect that is setting a lot of boats to rocking but I will get into that in a moment.
The PROSumer mad the point that by removing the position from PROS that it was upsetting because many people really like the man that lost his job due to the cut. Also it would be a loss of the groups be ram that were enjoyable. Current events, independent living skills and a very popular jewelry crafting group would be lost or changed.
Paul explained to him that “he” had to choose where to make the cut. (I had to do a double take, did an administrator just take responsibility for a decision?) He explained that sometime you have to make choices you don’t want to. I was very impress at that moment. I most occurrences you would get a fluffy no realistic answer or none at all. I had to give Paul some credit on this one. Does that mean I agree with his decision? HELL NO! I personally think it could have been handle differently by bringing it up before the rest of the staff and possibly some of the PROSumers (leaving the name of the person who job was at risk out of the formula) I think there could have been some other cuts or add ons that would make the bean counters happy.
In my head I have “of course” played it out, over and over. I am worried about how PROSumers are feeling and what fears this whole issue is bringing up because they are now my fears as well. If PROS does not get its numbers up, who will be the next head on the chopping block. Will it be my clinician? Are the cinical staff worried about losing their job? How does that affect my treatment.
How many more groups will be lost? Is it worth staying at PROS? With the reduction in support and the removal of security personnel become a safety issue? If PROS keeps taking staff away and reducing services why should they still be able to collect full amounts from medicaid? This is all getting to be to much and I am wondering if switch to PROS is the right decision for me or not. So frustrating.
Mike
Well its monday and time to start a new week at PROS. Other than a few doctors appointments I will be able to spend some time there and hopefully get a chance to get some answers to my concerns about its life expectancy. The more I hear the less I like so it will be an interesting week.
Now That Howie’s position at PROS is being eliminated they have to replace the groups he ran with someone new. So I am sure marylou has things covered in the kithen but what are they going to do about apartment living and current events groups.
As Ellis medicine bleeds out the PROS program who is the next staff member to go? Some of the cuts included reduced security. I bet that makes everyone feel really comfortable. I am impressed by Ellis medicine thought that its a good idea to reduce security at the same time they are reducing services to the people they provide for. Its gonna be one of those things they will “rethink” after something goes amuck I guess.
I am still working on the July issue of reach out and the website. There have been some schedule changes that I have to post. I want to write an article about the ICM program coming to co-habitate with us while at the same time w get told there is no room for computers. (wow 2 whole hospitals and not a singe room for 3 computers).
Well anyway, have a good day and smile (it make people wonder what you are up too)
Mike
Well I guess I am not the only one that can’t stand things next to my eye. Today I went to the eye doctor to get my first of a series of injections in my eye. I have diabetes and it comes with this wonderful thing called retinopothy. In two weekis I have to go back for not only another injection but they are going to do laser surgery on ly left eye.
A big part of me didnt want to go but I love my photography and computing Read the rest of this entry »
P.R.O.S. Stands for Personalized Recovery Oriented Services. This is where medicaid will pay for mental health services as long as the rules are followed.
Here in Schenectady we have had two programs that have been around for many years. The Ellis Hospital Continuing Day Treatment Program and Collage Social Club. Both have been around for 20 plus years and provided needed services in Schenectady. The day treatment program provides clinical services and the Collage provides social and recreational services.
For some reason it has been decided that there is a need to merge the two programs together under PROS. So I have been witness to these two places trying to figure out how to make it one and preserve the best out of each while meeting the PROS requirements. Needless to say, its been scary.
Too find out more about PROS
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on February 5, 2012