the spirit of penn's garden – january 21, 2016

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VOL. 1NO. 2

PRESS

HOTOFF THE

WHAT MAKES A NEIGHBORHOOD

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A look at Brewerytown through the eyes

of residents.

ACCU REGGIE

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Seven day forecast for the Penn’s Garden region.

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

7

Events and happeningsin Penn’s Garden.

HYPERLOCAL DONE DIFFERENTLY

FAIRMOUNT + NORTH CENTRAL + BREWERYTOWN + TEMPLE + STRAWBERRY MANSIONFRANCISVILLE + POPLAR + LUDLOW + SPRING GARDEN

GIRL SCOUT MURAL

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Broad Street loses a classic mural.

BALDSPOT

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Fun, games and handwritten comics.

FIVE-STAR NURSING HOMES

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Disciplinary actions are down, but is quality up?

When you are born in Philly, telling people what neigh-borhood you are from is your badge of honor. It’s in your walk, your talk and your overall understanding of your place in the world — or at least a microcosm. It

lets people know what kind of business you mean. But what happens when a neighborhood has gone through multiple iterations of itself throughout the last several decades and now looks and feels totally dif-ferent from the place you once called home? Welcome to Brewerytown, an ever changing ‘hood where natives and newbies sport a neighborhood identity badge that reflects the future while still holding on tightly to the complex history that got us to this moment.

At first glance, present day Brewerytown is not easy to define. It’s been through a lot of physical, aesthetic and demographic changes that have made it hard to put a finger on its identity. “It’s not a coherent, unified place,” said Slavko Brkich of Melon Green Realty Group, Inc., who has been developing in this area for over a decade. Many of the tried and true Brewerytowners would agree. “I think one of the things that [Brewerytown] has lost in the gentrifi-cation process is a sense of community,” Andre Wright, a lifetime 29th Street resident and founder/CEO of Give and Go Athletics, a local non-

The number of disciplinary actions against nursing homes by the Pennsylvania Health Department has been on the decline since 2002. Either the quality of elder care in the state has improved, the Department has loosened its regulatory controls or some-

thing entirely different is going on. Health Department surveyors inspect all nursing homes that receive public funding. They record each care deficiency and rate it by the degree of harm the resident/s suffered and to what extent these incidents repre-sent chronic problems, based on staff interviews and observations. These reports ideally remain consistent and sensible, as do the enforce-ment actions that result from them. Some argue, however, that the Health Department has failed to uphold these ideals. “[I]n Pennsylvania,” the

AARP argued in a 2014 amicus brief,

“there were many more citations for deficiencies than there were penalties. Nursing facilities know that they will most likely not face penalties for the most serious and persistent violations of the quality care standards, elimi-nating the coercive incentive to provide care that meets minimum standards.”

Between 2012 and 2014, the Department didn’t classify any resident deaths involving staff negligence as “severe harm,” according to Philadel-phia law firm Community Legal Services. The Department in some cases

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profit that provides athletic opportunities for the local school kids, Wright said. At one time, there was a tight knit community feel. “This was an interesting place to grow up,” William Luff, a resi-dent for over four decades, said. “The neighborhood was always quiet during the day, but always bustling with ac-tivity.” Luff recalls a childhood where he played near his house on 26th Street with dozens of local kids until the sun went down. Living in his childhood home, once again, this time with his wife, children and mother, Luff is cognizant of a very clear absence. “I was recently reflecting on the fact that I don’t know my neighbors anymore.” So, is knowing your neighbors what makes a neighbor-hood? “Even though it was dangerous here when I was growing up,” Wright noted, “there was always someone to look out for me.” Wright, like Luff, recalls playing on his street all day long, even though he’d have to stay on that block, until the street lights went on. “You don’t see that now. There aren’t kids playing on the streets anymore. I think because there’s so much divide now,” Wright lamented. That divide is between the old and the new. The old is represented by a predominantly African American work-ing-class community who’s been here for decades. The new, well, those are the artists and those of means of mul-tiple races and college students. “I moved here 14 years ago because I answered an ad for an apartment that I could afford,” noted Chicago trans-plant and self-described broke artist, Peter Quinn. He now resides on the same street that Wright played on in the 90s. Quinn is the new, the edgy, one reason this neighborhood is changing. “It definitely took a few years for the locals to trust me,” Quinn shared. Now, he is the unofficial neigh-borhood historian, walking around as if he’s lived here his entire life, able to share the stories that he heard about this abandoned lot or that one, this development project or that one, this local or that one. But, how many narratives about Brewerytown are there possibly to tell? Quite a few, apparently. Known by its current name because of the breweries that existed here in the late 19th and early 20th century, Brew-erytown began to decline in the 1920s when prohibition hit. With most, and then eventually all, of the breweries gone from the city, coupled with white flight, Brewerytown became an economically depressed area, primarily occu-pied by African Americans. The last remnant of local industry was the Acme distribu-tion and warehouse complex at 31st and Masters Streets in the early 90s. “I think Acme closing its doors was the single most important event that happened here,” noted Brkich, a Croatian-born developer who bought the nearly 700,000 square foot complex in the late 1990s. This closing displaced thousands of locals workers, which hurt the neighborhood; but, it opened up the possi-bility years later for Brkich to create a new purpose for this facility, which provided a future. Over the years, the redevelopment of this complex, locat-ed at 1301 N. 31st St., has included the expansion of com-mercial office space, residential housing, an arts’ storage unit and an art gallery. Additionally, the Greater Brewery-town Community Development Corporation is housed in the facility and runs their meetings out of the space. In the early 2000s, developers at MM Partners renovated seven shells on the 2900 block of West Girard Avenue, the commercial corridor running through the width of Brew-erytown. This was in response to meetings with residents to find out what they needed and wanted in their neigh-

borhood. “The residents wanted to get rid of the boarded up shells that negatively impacted otherwise beautiful houses of re-ally good long-term residents,” Aaron Smith, the second of three partners at MM Partners, said. The results of these new developments are two-fold. First, the faces on the streets are different. “I now see whites and blacks sharing the step together,” Wright noted, which he never used to see. “Or, I just see white people walking up and down the Girard Avenue.” As the main thoroughfare, West Girard is where you are seeing a lot of the human changes. “The background now is of a young, urban professional of diverse ethnic back-grounds,” Luff said. “You can get a smile on the streets, but none of us know each other.”

Wright thinks development is a good thing and “if it is executed fairly and properly, it could be a great thing.” For now, full fruition of Wright’s hopes may be in the works. According to Smith, there are plans to bring more neighborhood friendly retail to West Girard, such as more retail and affordable food options. There is now a Super-market, Aldi and hopefully a national brand pharmacy will be coming soon. There are still streets in Brewerytown that look wartorn, and with many absentee owners, it’s been hard to rectify that. But, there are developers and neighbors working to recreate Brewerytown into a place that is livable and accessible to a variety of urbanites who want a tight knit neighborhood. That community feel will come. “You can’t build charac-ter,” noted Brkich. “That comes with time.” ·

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snow accumulation is possible. The storm rages on Saturday with heavy snow in the morning possibly mixing with and changing to rain before changing back to snow before ending. It will be very windy as well. We could see more big time snow accumulation! Sunday features the end of the snow in the early AM and, along with Monday, will be the calm after the big storm. It will be cold with some sunshine both days. On Tuesday we watch as clouds increase and rain or snow is possible in the evening. The bottom line is we are in a very stormy and wintry pattern. The weather winner of the week is Monday; the weather loser is Saturday. ·

Last week we went through a temperature see-saw that ended up with us back in the ice box. Sun-day we saw our first region-wide snowfall, albeit a light one. Most of us saw a coating of up to an

inch, with a couple inches dropping near the Shore. This week starts very cold, but our attention will be on a storm that will affect us on Friday. This storm could provide large amounts of snow and rain to the area. Friday-Saturday Storm Discussion: This storm is going to drop feet of snow on someone in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast and will most likely turn into an all out blizzard! Now Philly, as always, will be on the edge of the worst snow impacts from the storm, but at least 6 inches of snow is

likely to fall. If the storm comes inland, Philly would go over to rain after getting 6-10 inches of snow. If the storm is all snow, we would see unprecedented amounts of snow. The exact snowfall details are unknown, so follow our dai-ly forecast updates on Facebook and Twitter. Either way, expect snow to begin on Friday afternoon, with storm im-pacts lasting until Sunday morning. Buckle up folks, this is gonna be a fun ride! Thursday is a touch “warmer” as temperatures nudge up to the middle 30s. It will still feel cold though. On Friday we wait for the arrival of a storm that looks to pack a big punch across the region. Snow should start around 2 PM and get very heavy in the evening. Significant

Wright thinks development is a good thing and “if it is executed fairly and properly, it could be a great thing.” For now, full fruition of Wright’s hopes may be in the works. According to Smith, there are plans to bring more neighborhood friendly retail to West Girard, such as more retail and affordable food options. There is now a Super-market, Aldi and hopefully a national brand pharmacy will be coming soon. There are still streets in Brewerytown that look wartorn, and with many absentee owners, it’s been hard to rectify that. But, there are developers and neighbors working to recreate Brewerytown into a place that is livable and accessible to a variety of urbanites who want a tight knit neighborhood. That community feel will come. “You can’t build charac-ter,” noted Brkich. “That comes with time.” ·

Clarifications: In the 1/13 issue, we mistakenly referred to Fairmount Community Development Corporation as a registered community organization. In the same article, it should be clarified that any work done along the W.

Girard corridor in Brewerytown is in collaboration with the Greater Brewerytown CDC.




HOW THE PA HEALTH DEPARTMENT RATES ELDER CARE PROBLEMS

Scope of Deficiency

Severity of Deficiency

ISOLATED PATTERN WIDESPREAD

Scope of a deficiency is isolated when one or a very limited number of residents are affected and/or one or a very limited number of staff are involved, and/or the

situation has occurred only occasionally or in a very limited number of locations.

POTENTIAL FOR MINIMAL HARM

The severity of a deficiency is defined as potential for mini-mal harm when the deficiency has the potential for causing

no more than a minor negative impact on the resident[s].

MINIMAL HARM

A deficiency is determined to have a severity level of minimal

harm when it results in mini-mal discomfort to the resident

or has the potential (not yet realized) to negatively affect

the resident’s ability to achieve his/her highest functional

status as defined by an accurate and comprehensive resident assessment, plan of care, and

provision of services.

ACTUAL HARM

The actual harm level indicates that the deficiency has resulted in a negative outcome that has

compromised the resident’s ability to maintain and/or reach

his/her highest practicable physical, mental and psychoso-cial well-being as defined by an

accurate and comprehensive resident assessment, plan of

care, and provision of services.

IMMEDIATE HARM

This level of severity indicates that the resident is in imme-diate jeopardy of a situation

which has caused, or is likely to cause, serious injury, harm,

impairment, or death as a result of the nursing home’s noncompliance with one or

more regulations.

Scope of a deficiency is a pattern when more than a very limited number of residents are affected, and/or more than a very limited number of staff are involved, and/or the situation has occurred in several locations,

and/or the same resident(s) have been affected by repeated occurrences of the same deficient practice, but the deficient practice is not pervasive throughout

the nursing home.

Scope of a deficiency is widespread when the problems causing the deficiency are pervasive in the nursing home and/or represents a systemic failure that has

affected or has the potential to affect a large portion or all of the nursing home’s residents.

Source: PA Health Department. “Nursing Homes Survey Definitions.” <http://sais.health.pa.gov/commonpoc/content/publicweb/definitions.htm>

recognized resident deaths as “minimal harm.” What information do these reports contain? Take for ex-ample the following write-ups on Philadelphia Nursing Home (PNH) at 21st and Girard Avenue. This isn’t a ran-dom sampling. Rather, Spirit picked some of the more se-rious incidents on record. Another caveat: while nursing homes like PNH would likely dispute many of the claims these reports contain, time and financial constraints may prevent them from doing so. In 2012, a PNH nurse’s aide found a resident

“partly in his wheelchair, at the bottom of a set of stairs… with a laceration upon his forehead… The resident was found to have been unsupervised in the lobby area… [That resident had] exited through the doors, down the stairs, while in his wheelchair, sustaining injuries.”

The resident suffered an intracranial hemorrhage after the fall. The Department classified this as an “actual harm” in-cident, though not representative of a chronic problem. In 2013, a PNH resident took the elevator to the facility’s ground floor and walked “past the security desk, where [two] security guards were seated and exited the lobby.” Po-lice later apprehended the resident three miles away from PNH’s site. The Department classified this as an “actual harm” incident, not representative of a chronic problem. A PNH resident didn’t receive medications as prescribed over a two-week observation period this past September due to miscommunications between staff at the nursing home and a dialysis clinic, according to an inspection report. The medications included Aspirin, prescribed as a blood thinner, to reduce heart attack risk. This was recorded as a “minimal harm” incident, not representative of a chronic problem. According to another Health Department report filed that month, a PNH staffer didn’t wash their hands before or after performing a resident’s tracheotomy. The Depart-ment classified this as a “minimal harm” incident, not representative of a chronic problem. Court records also provide valuable information regard-ing elder care. Though the financial interests and biases of involved parties should be kept in mind, “Estate Act liens effectively take the litigation proceeds away from nursing home plain-

tiffs and put them in the hands of taxpayers,” according to elder care attorney Ron Lebovits. “By and large, my clients have virtually no financial incentive to sue,” he said. Lebovits is currently litigating a professional negligence case against PNH. The estate of the deceased resident he represents sued the facility and its management company late last year. Inadequate supervision at PNH led the resident to fall

and break both her hips, according to the allegations. She developed pressure sores while bedridden, one of which became infected. That infection among other factors led to that resident’s death. PNH didn’t respond to a request for comment on the law-suit, which is ongoing. According to a similar suit filed by a PNH resident in




2013, that resident required a “left above-knee amputa-tion due to gangrene of his left foot,” and subsequently died of blood sepsis. Purportedly, the resident had no skin wounds when they checked in at the facility five months prior. This case is also ongoing. In October, the Health Department issued an “abbreviated summary” on PNH. That summary registers “no deficien-cies related to the Health portion of the survey process.” The Center for Medicare Services (CMS), which acts as the federal big brother of nursing home regulators, rates PNH as a five-star facility. How can what lawsuits and inspections suggest differ this much from regulators’ summaries and ratings? A re-cent government audit of elder care rating systems sug-gests some answers to that question. This audit found that while CMS has within the past decade

“made numerous modifications to its nursing home over-sight activities, it has not monitored the potential effect of these modifications on nursing home quality oversight… CMS cannot ensure that any modifications in oversight do not ad-versely affect its ability to assess nursing home quality.”

For example, CMS has only recently begun to account for how often nursing home staff use physical restraints on residents and how much antipsychotic medication is prescribed to them. The Center has only recently begun to account for staff-hour-to-resident ratios. The audit of CMS also found that state-level political shifts sometimes influence the prevailing “regulatory phi-losophy towards nursing homes.” Consider Long Term Care Provider Bulletin No. 2012-11-13. The Bulletin clarifies which incidents nursing homes

must report to the state and which they don’t. Pennsylva-nia elder care facilities bear no obligation to report inju-rious falls by residents, erroneous resident discharges, billing mistakes, record-keeping mistakes and medical equipment “misadventures,” though such reports pervade Health Department records. The “guidance outlined in the Provider Bulletin did not alter or change a facility’s reporting requirements,” Penn-sylvania Health Department Press Secretary Wes Culp ex-plained via e-mail. “It merely clarified the reporting pro-cess.” Culp also confirmed the policy this Bulletin lays out remains in effect today.

All Pennsylvania Health Department reports on nursing homes, including those cited in this article, are available for review at: <http://sais.health.pa.gov/commonpoc/nhLocatorie.asp>]




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work of art will soon face the same fate. A major construc-tion project is underway at Broad and Callowhill, and with its beginning comes the end of a work of art. According to the proposal submitted to the Civic Design Review in 2014 and reported on by Philly Magazine, the project, a mixed-use space by Parkway Corporation and The Hanover Company, a developer from Houston, Texas, will feature 339 apartments and 15,000 or more square feet of retail space, with 370 parking spaces. The project is split between two addresses, 322 and 339 Broad Street, which are currently parking lots. This new development means saying goodbye to the Girl Scout mural currently overlooking the western lot. “We understand that murals cannot be here forever, that everything including us, is transitory and that the life of a city is fluid and dynamic,” said Jane Golden, the executive director of the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program Golden said that the key is to pick a smart site, to try to protect the art when it is in jeopardy, and, if the mural is lost, to “work vigilantly to create something new.” “I would say we lose about 3 murals a year,” Golden said, “but we create about 100 new works of art each year.” Although some murals cannot be saved from demolition, they are heavily documented in over one hundred videos, both long and short, and 3 books that have been made

about Mural Arts’ work. While the Mural Arts Program doesn’t want to see their murals go, it’s not always within their control. Golden explains that, while the artist holds the sole copyright to their design and shares the copyright of the mural with Mural Arts, the ultimate decision to remove the mural is that of the developer. “All we ask of developers is this: please be respectful and let us know if a mural or a work of public art is in jeopardy. Inform Mural Arts so we can tell the commu-

nity and the artist. These are city assets,” Golden said. She continued, “[a]nd then, if the mural is beloved, iconic, et cetera, we ask that developers be part of the solution to recreate new work.” The murals may not be forever, but their spirit and mem-ory can be. “[W]e want the work to be as powerful and impactful as possible, “ Golden said, “so that when/if the murals go away, the memory of the work is powerful and reminds us why we want art in our lives.” ·


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Tuesday, January 26SM COMMUNITY RESOURCE GARDENInterested in growing your own vegetables and herbs? Joinus at the Strawberry Mansion Community Garden andlearn how and when to grow food naturally from 11AM-2PM. There are a limited number of plots available socome out and join the club soon! The garden is located atRidge Avenue & North 32nd Street.For more information call the East Park Revitalization Alli-ance at 215-869-4208.

Saturday, January 30BENEPHILLYQuality, affordable health insurance will be rolling into a neighborhood near you! The “BenePhilly Get Covered Tour” will bring free, in-person Affordable Care Act en-rollment assisters to locations throughout the city via the BenePhilly Mobile Unit. At each of the tour stops, eligible Philadelphians will be able to enroll in health insurance through the Health Insurance Marketplace, HealthChoic-es Medicaid expansion program, and CHIP. Help sign-ing up with other services including SNAP, Property Tax Rent Rebate, LIHEAP/CRISIS and other services will also be available. The best way to sign up for an appointment with a free, in-person enrollment assister at one of the tour stops is to call 3-1-1 or visit GCAConnector.org. Walk-ins will also be seen on a first come, first serve basis.

Wednesday, January 27WEST GIRARD FOOD CUPBOARDNew, first time people come between 3:30-4PM to Fair-mount CDC, 2712 West Girard Ave. Bring with you a pho-to id, (and a copy for our records) and social security card for yourself and each family member.(and a copy for our records). Returning clients come at regular appointment time. The West Girard Food Cupboard is operated by West Girard Community Council in partnership with Fairmount Community Development Corp. and East Park Revital-ization Alliance. The Food Cupboard distributes food to neighbors in need, people who are either in between jobs, seniors who may be on low fixed incomes, or people who are working but still can’t make ends meet. Most of the food we distribute is free government food that comes through SHARE Food Program which distributes to indi-vidual community organizations such as WGCC.

Sunday, January 31BATTLE OF THE BROADCASTERS: MANDARIN CONTEST FINALEJoin us for a Watch Party and choose the first ever Manda-rin broadcasters for Temple basketball. Five Chinese stu-dents will square off to earn their spot as Temple Men’s Basketball Broadcasters. Only two will win! The game will be Temple vs. University of South Florida. Food will be served. The first 20 students through the door will receive special prizes. Don’t forget to wear your Temple gear. The event will take place at D301 in Morgan Hall at 1:30PM.RSVP to [email protected] by January 26.

Monday, February 1INSTANT REPLAYInstant RePlay is a program that collects gently used toys, puzzles, books, and other play items and donates them to kids and families in need. The February collection at The Monkey & The Elephant (2831 Girard Avenue) will support the Achieving Independence Center (AIC), which exists to provide a safe communal space where youth in dependent care can be connected, educated, and empowered as they strive toward attaining and maintaining independence. The AIC is dedicated to providing support and real life tools for youth who want to make an investment in their future. Toy donations for ages 3 and under are most appreciated. For further information visit vfriedman913.wix.com/in-stantreplay.

Tuesday, February 2BARBIE FISCHER: RESTORATIVE JUSTICEDeveloped from indigenous practices around the world, restorative justice is a way of dealing with hurt and harm. Restorative justice focuses on the healing of victims and offenders through dialogue and truth telling in ways that offer dignity and respect to all stakeholders affected.Barbie Fischer is the Executive Director of Restorative Encounters, a restorative justice organization. She works with prisoners and their families, veterans, and former child soldiers. This event is part of Eastern State’s ongoing Searchlight Series of events addressing issues in contem-

porary corrections. The Searchlight Series discussions take place the first Tuesday of every month, free and open to the public from 6-7PM. No reservations required.

Thursday, February 4MINDFUL STRESS AND ANXIETY MANAGEMENT Mindful Stress and Anxiety Management Center of Phila-delphia is offering an 8 week Mindfulness Class starting at 7:30PM, donations only. It will take place at the The Phila-delphian, 2401 Pennsylvania Ave, Suite 1C-52.For more information call Harold at 610-517-3127. To regis-ter, visit anxietyocdbala.com.

Wednesday, February 17GAMBA UHow can you leverage your social media channels to rein-

force your brand in a meaningful and valuable way? How can you shift gears from traditional advertising to adver-tising on social media? Come to a free Social Media Brand-ing and Advertising Class from GAMBA U. LThe location is TBA, but the class will run from 6-7:30PM.To register, visit fcdc.wildapricot.org/

ART MUSEUM EVENTSThe Philadelphia Art Museum hosts dozens of events throughout the week, every week. Events include Chil-dren’s Art Classes, Collection Tours of various exhibits, Teacher Workshops, Gallery Programs, Networking events and more. For information on these events and more, visit philamuseum.org/calendar.

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