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State pauses plan to relocate Pappas Rehabilitation Hospital for Children; working group to evaluate options
Summary
The administration paused a plan to relocate Pappas Rehabilitation Hospital for Children and will convene a working group to evaluate facility and program options while the hospital continues limited operations, DPH Commissioner Margret Goldstein told the Joint Committee on Ways and Means.
Commissioner Margret Goldstein of the Department of Public Health told the Joint Committee on Ways and Means that the administration has paused a House 1 plan to relocate Pappas Rehabilitation Hospital for Children and will convene a working group to assess options.
Goldstein said the pause means returning operations to the status quo as of December 2024: Pappas remains open, referrals continue, and clinicians continue admitting and discharging patients. "I think to put it really plainly, a pause to me means we go back to where we were in December of 2024. The facility continues to operate exactly the way it was operating…
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