Maple Lawn orphanage says it no longer needs relief funds from pandemic woes

Branch Counties — After all, county-owned Maple Lawn Medical Care nursing facilities don’t need to borrow $250,000 to cover salaries and expenses this month.

Director Jane Savitis recently told the county commission that patient census and earnings have increased in the past few months.

“We have about $373,000 in our cash account, which means we have it on hand right now,” says Sabaitis.

Sabaitis came before the commission when a state audit showed that he overpaid Medicaid funds to Maple Lawn on October 21, 2019 by $874,976.96 and began reducing current payments to recover the overpayment. I was.

Last Thursday, accountant Plant Moran filed with treasurer Steve Lutz a revised 2021 tax return owing $3.6 million in federal COVID-19 employee retention credits to Maple Loan. .

Sabaitis told the committee not to expect funding from the ERC anytime soon.

“Plant Moran says 12 months. I think that’s the minimum.”

Chairman Tim Stoll said, “We’ve heard longer in some cases.

“They process quarterly,” Sabaitis said. “We know that quarterly payments have come a little earlier for some facilities.”

Maple Lawn didn’t apply for ERC funding, Sabaitis said, because the facility didn’t know until January that the county-owned facility was eligible.

Last month, at the request of the Sabaitis and Maple Lawn boards, county commissioners voted 3 to 2, and in a November ballot, county property was awarded $0.99 for five years to pay for “operating, maintaining, and capital costs.” Decided to propose Mill’s appraisal. for maple lawn.

When asked to borrow $1 million, the director promised a fee, saying, “If you don’t need the money, you won’t borrow it. We’ve seen a census increase in the last two months.”

Maple Lawn recently added staff to accommodate more patients.

“We couldn’t hire too many, but we have six potential CNAs starting classes on October 24th at Glen Oaks Community College in Centerville. That’s the three-week program.