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Residents raise concerns about nursing leadership, patient transfers and police interactions at Sullivan County HR meeting
Summary
Public commenters told the Sullivan County Human Resources Committee that the adult care center’s contracted director of nursing does not meet the position’s posted minimum qualifications and that patients have been left without functioning Hoyer lifts; a separate commenter described a Monticello police stop they said appeared to be an over‑detention.
Several members of the public used the Human Resources Committee meeting to raise concerns about long‑standing issues at the county adult care center and to describe a detention they said raised human‑rights concerns.
A nurse and member of the family council at the county’s adult care center (ACC) told the committee that the facility’s director of nursing (DON) is employed through a contract agency and ‘‘does not meet the minimum qualifications’’ listed on the county’s HR website. The speaker said the DON received a registered‑nurse license in 2022 and a bachelor’s degree in nursing in 2023 and that the county’s posted DON job description requires, quote, ‘‘6 years…
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