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LOL, history is repeating itself here. If you want to know what fallout (sorry) will come from a major nuclear power plant closure, just look at what happened 25+ years ago when Andrew Cuomo's father Mario Cuomo was the governor of NY state, and pushed agreements to shut down Long Island's brand sparkling new Shoreham nuclear power plant. http://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/01/nyregion/cuomo-and-lilco-sign-a-new-accord-to-shut-shoreham.html?pagewanted=all The electricity customers on Long Island got hosed on that one, and instead of getting cheaper electricity rates from the nuclear plant , they have paid some of the highest rates in the country for the past 25 years. http://www.newsday.com/long-island/lipa-electricity-among-priciest-in-northeast-1.11937361 The school district where the Long Island plant was located, which used to be one of the best school districts in the whole country also got hosed when they lost a major source of school tax revenue. http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/12/nyregion/the-fallout-of-the-demise-of-shoreham.html?pagewanted=all There are a lot of reasons why Mario Cuomo was eventually voted out of the NY governor's office, but the anger of many Long Islanders over the forced Shoreham nuclear plant shut down was part of it. I'm surprised our current governor does not think that the Indian Point shutdown will have a similar political blowback to his political career.. Also, Is it really a good idea to switch a major portion of NYC's energy supply to come from a 333 mile long electric line from Quebec, Canada???

I think there are several issues going on here: 1. Is the facility REQUIRED by law or regulation to have an appropriately trained provider on site to respond and provide emergency medical care? Probably not for most assisted living facilities. 2. Even If there is an appropriately trained provider on site, do they actually have a "duty to act" and go to the side of the person who fell, and provide care? I'd really like to know the answer to this. I mean, if an RN was contracted by the assisted living facility to just give insulin injections to residents, and an emergency occurs while they are onsite, is responding considered outside of their scope of employment? Can they purposely stay down the other end of the hall, away from the patient/resident even though they are told about the fall? It would be great if DOH could clear that up so that EMS providers can at least understand why the people onsite aren't really helping/handling this themselves. 3. Regardless of 1 & 2 above, it may still be in the patients best interest to be evaluated by a well trained, well experienced EMT or Medic anyway, rather than someone else onsite: good injury assessment skills are lacking at a lot of facilities.

NY Daily News web site has an article today, in their "Local" section related to this subject: "Public school nurses give swine flu vaccine to kids without parents' OK, sends child to hospital" (I tried posting the URL but it is not working correctly) I know that news organizations will not always report all the correct details, so take this with a grain of salt: the story says that the nurse did not confirm the patient's identity before giving the med. If true, that is a big nursing no-no.