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February 25, 2013 | VOL. 49, No. 8

PLAYLAND’S FUTURE FACES NEW HURDLE

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BY sAm BARRoN sbarron@westfairinc.com

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s far back as October, it was Sustainable Playland Inc. that was the apparent winner in taking over operations of Rye Playland, the county-owned money pit that last year was awash in $3.4 million in red ink. With a signed letter of intent in hand, Sustainable Playland had pledged to invest more than $34 million in the amusement park and make an upfront payment of $4 million and minimum annual payments of $1.2 million to Westchester County. Sustainable Playland had said it would assume all responsibility for the park’s management for a period of 10 years, with the county retaining ownership of the 280-acre park that hugs the Long Island Sound. But Democratic legislators expressed skepticism about the deal, concerned that taxpayers would still be on the hook for Playland’s debt. Peter Harckham, majority leader of the Westchester County Board of Legislators, said it

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Victor Delgado, founder of Xplosive Bats, at home in Yonkers.

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State running short on primary care docs BY JoHN GolDEN jgolden@westfairinc.com

The hudson Valley region was one of only two areas in new york that gained more physicians than it lost in 2011, though hospitals here reported a collective shortage of more than 140 primary care doctors in 2012. those were among the recent findings of the 2012 physician advocacy survey of the healthcare Association of new York State (hAnYS), a rensselaer-based health care advocacy group and data provider representing more than 250 hospitals and health systems statewide. the report, “doctor Shortage: condition critical,” drew on

survey responses from 110 hospitals, which represent 73 percent of hospitals in the state outside new York city. Participating in the survey were members of the northern Metropolitan hospital Association (normet), which includes 29 hospitals in Westchester, rockland, Putnam, dutchess, orange, Ulster and Sullivan counties. hAnYS found that more than 1,200 physicians were needed by hospitals across the state last year, a 64 percent increase from 2011. Primary care doctors accounted for a greater percentage of the shortage, as demand for primary services increases in a reformed system of health care delivery and payCode blue, page 6

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