Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Onondaga County, NY Water Environmental Protection Unit President Bob Reilly demonstrates in support of Van Duyn Nursing Home and SUNY Upstate Medical Center. The Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century's recommendations for Central New York has CSEA and others in the health care community fighting proposals to privatize and merge SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse and Onondaga County's Van Duyn Home and Hospital with nearby private hospitals, as well as decreasing beds at Broome County's Willow Point nursing home.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Sean Davis, a cook at Van Duyn Home and Hospital in Syracuse, NY, calls his area state lawmakers to urge them to vote against the Berger Commission report. Lawmakers have been deluged with thousands of faxes, telephone calls and testimony and it's become clear few of the commission's recommendations for hospital closings and consolidations, which could have heinous outcomes, will come about without more scrutiny and legislative wrangling.
Van Duyn Home and Hospital Director of Safety and Security Kelly Neish makes a call at a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)-sponsored phonebank to urge state legislators to reject the Berger Commission report. She's not a CSEA member but one of CSEA's management supporters at Van Duyn.