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    BusinessJournalOF WEST CENTRAL OHIO

    June 2012

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    Ohio business owners delay hiring

    Construction materials prices inch up 0.1 percent in April

    Six out of 10 small business owners nation-wide intend to increase capital spending butdelay hiring in a defensive move that reflectstheir lingering concerns about the U.S. econo-my, according to the PNC Economic Outlook

    surveys newest findings.The fall findings of the biannual survey,

    which began in 2003, also found one out of 10owners hired or plan to hire qualified employ-ees due to the tax credit offered by the HIREAct passed by Congress in the spring.

    Overall, the outlook of small businessowners has improved slightly as eight out of10 (compared to 76 percent in the spring) aremoderately to greatly optimistic about theirown companys prospects today while 20 per-cent are pessimistic (vs. 23 percent).

    Until we see a solid pattern of small busi-

    ness hiring and investments re-established, theeconomic recovery will be a bumpy road, butnot another ride over a cliff, said Stuart

    Hoffman, chief economist for The PNCFinancial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC).These findings support PNCs view that theeconomy will remain transitional for the rest

    of 2010 and into the first half of 2011 withweak but persistent half-speed real GDP and

    job gains.Highlights: Capital Spending, Sales, Hir-

    ing

    The survey, which gauges the mood andsentiment of small and medium sized businessowners, found almost two-thirds (63 percent)plan to increase capital spending during thenext six months. This is a significant increasefrom 49 percent in the spring. Technologyequipment spending leads the list of prioritiesas owners look to maintain their operationswithout adding additional employees.

    Other findings about the next six monthsinclude:

    Improved Access to Credit: While threeout of four owners (76 percent compared to 78

    percent in the spring) do not intend to seek anew loan or line of credit, they do see greateraccess to financing. Thirteen percent (vs. 9percent in the spring) says its easier to obtaincredit while 44 percent (vs. 38 percent in thespring) say its neither easy nor difficult com-pared to three months ago.

    Stalled Sales and Profits: Fewer thanhalf (42 percent) expect their sales to increasecompared to 47 percent in the spring. In termsof profits, 31 percent expect an increase, downfrom 37 percent in the spring.

    Hiring Outlook Improved: 22 percent ex-pect to hire full-time employees, the same asspring and significantly better than one yearago (17 percent). Only 12 percent plan to re-duce their workforce compared to 14 percentin the spring and 18 percent one year ago.Manufacturing companies are most likely tohire followed by the service industry.

    Still Waiting for U.S. Recovery: Theoverwhelming majority (91 percent) say theU.S. economy has yet to noticeably improve.Seven out of 10 (71 percent) feel the recoveryis more than one year away compared to 20

    percent who expect improvement within thenext 12 months.

    Local View Is Better: The sentiment isslightly less negative closer to home as 57percent are optimistic and 42 percent are pes-simistic about the prospects for their localeconomy. This compares to 41 percent opti-

    mistic and 58 percent pessimistic for the U.S.economy.

    Whats Your Worry?: One out of three (34percent) say weak sales/demand for service isthe most important challenge facing their busi-

    ness today. Their second concern at 21 percentis changes in government policy that affectmy business.

    These far outdistanced health insurance(12 percent) and taxes (11 percent).

    An online media kit containing national andregional survey results is available on PNCswebsite at http://www.pnc.com/go/presskits.

    The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.(www.pnc.com) is one of the nations largestdiversified financial services organizationsproviding retail and business banking; residen-tial mortgage banking; specialized services for

    corporations and government entities, includ-ing corporate banking, real estate finance andasset-based lending; wealth management andasset management. Follow @PNCNews onTwitter for breaking news and announcementsfrom PNC.

    The trajectory of prices may becomemore volatile in the months ahead with finan-

    cial markets being impacted by ongoing badnews from both Europe and the United States. --ABC Chief Economist Anirban Basu.

    In a sign of easing inflation pressure, the

    nations construction materials prices in-creased 0.1 percent in April, according to the

    May 11 Producer Price Index report by theU.S. Labor Department.

    Construction materials prices are up 2.5percent compared to the same time last year.

    Nonresidential construction materials priceswere unchanged for the month, but are 2.4

    percent higher from one year ago.Nonferrous wire and cable prices rose 0.7

    percent for the month, but are down 5.2 percentfrom April 2011. Prices for fabricated struc-

    tural metal products were up 0.5 percent forthe month and are up 2 percent year over year.

    Prices for concrete products increased 0.2 per-cent in April and are up 2 percent comparedto the same time last year. Prices for steel mill

    See MATERIALS, page 7B

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    creativity.Employment change. Employment of

    architects is expected to increase by 16 per-cent between 2008 and 2018, which is fasterthan the average for all occupations. Currentdemographic trends will lead to an increasein demand for architects. As the populationof Sunbelt States continues to grow, thepeople living there will need new places tolive and work. As the population continuesto live longer and baby boomers retire, therewill be a need for more healthcare facilities,nursing homes, and retirement communi-ties. In education, buildings at all levels aregetting older and enrollments continue to in-

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    Elder Care

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    A shift from nursing homes to managed care at homeFaced with soaring health care costs and

    shrinking Medicare and Medicaid financing,nursing home operators are closing some fa-cilities and embracing an emerging modelof care that allows many elderly patients toremain in their homes and still receive themedical and social services available in in-stitutions.

    The rapid expansion of this new type ofcare comes at a time when health care ex-perts argue that for many aged patients, thenursing home model is no longer financiallyviable or medically justified.

    In the newer model, a team of doctors,social workers, physical and occupational

    therapists and other specialists providesmanaged care for individual patients athome, at adult day-care centers and in vis-its to specialists. Studies suggest that it canbe less expensive than traditional nursinghomes while providing better medical out-comes.

    The number of such programs has ex-panded rapidly, growing from 42 programsin 22 states in 2007 to 84 in 29 states today.In New York City, a program run by a divi-sion of CenterLight Health System, former-

    ly known as the Beth Abraham Family ofHealth Services, has over 2,500 participantsat 12 sites in the metropolitan area.

    It used to be that if you needed somekind of long-term care, the only way youcould get that service was in a nursinghome, with 24-hour nursing care, said Ja-son A. Helgerson, the Medicaid director forNew York State. That meant we were in-stitutionalizing service for people, many ofwhom didnt need 24-hour nursing care. Ifa person can get a service like home healthcare or Meals on Wheels, they can stay inan apartment and thrive in that environment,

    and its a lower cost to taxpayers.The recent influx of adult day-care cen-

    ters and other managed care plans for thefrail elderly is being driven by financialconstraints as President Obama and Con-gressional leaders seek hundreds of bil-lions of dollars in savings in Medicare andMedicaid. Nursing homes, which tend torely heavily on Medicare and Medicaid dol-lars, are facing enormous financial pressure Mr. Obamas proposed budget includesa $56 billion Medicare cut over 10 yearsachieved by restricting payments to nursinghomes and other long-term care providers.

    Nationally, the number of nursing homes

    has declined by nearly 350 in the past sixyears, according to the American HealthCare Association. In New York, the numberof nursing homes declined to 634 this Janu-ary from 649 in October 2007, and the num-ber of beds to 116,514 from 119,691.

    Over the next three years, New YorkState plans to shift 70,000 to 80,000 peoplewho need more than 120 days of Medicaid-reimbursed long-term care services and arenot in nursing homes into managed caremodels, Mr. Helgerson said.

    The move away from nursing homeswas highlighted on Thursday when Cardi-nal Timothy M. Dolan announced that theArchdiocese of New York, one of the stateslargest providers of nursing home care, isselling two of its seven nursing homes andopening or planning to open seven new adultday-care centers over the next three years.

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    Dolan said in a statement before he openeda 250-patient program at Saint Vincentde Paul Catholic Healthcare Center in theSouth Bronx.

    These new adult day-care centers, knownaround the nation by the acronym PACE Program of All-Inclusive Care for theElderly provide almost all the servicesa nursing home might, including periodicexaminations by doctors and nurses, day-time social activities like sing-alongs andlectures, physical and occupational therapyand two or three daily meals. All the par-ticipants are considered eligible for nursinghomes because they cannot perform two ormore essential activities on their own likebathing, dressing and going to the toilet. Butthey get to sleep in their own beds at night,often with a home health care aide or rela-

    tive nearby.The nonprofit groups that operate them

    receive a fixed monthly fee for each partici-

    pant and manage their entire care, includ-ing visits to specialists, hospitalizations,home care and even placement in a nurs-ing home. Because Medicare and Medicaidpay set fees instead of paying for specificprocedures, center operators are motivatedto provide preventive care to avoid costlyhospitalizations or nursing home care.

    Some elderly people, however, spurnPACE programs because under managedcare, they would have to switch their physi-cians to those at the PACE center or in itsnetwork.

    Most elderly people want to live out theirlives at home, a desire evident in interviewsin the PACE center the archdiocese openedin 2009 in Harlem, which has a staff of threedoctors and is visited regularly by a dentist,

    a podiatrist and a psychiatrist.

    Edna Blandon, 74, a diabetic weakened

    on her left side by a stroke who relies ona wheelchair, is transported by specializedvan to the Harlem PACE center three daysa week and appreciates that it provides notonly a home care attendant but sends a nurseevery two weeks to change pills in her pill-box and load a 14-day supply of insulin intosyringes that she will inject.

    My spirits would drop if I went to anursing home, she said. I love the fact thatI can go home at night. Theres no place likehome. I can sit down, look at the TV and goto bed when I want.

    James Harper, 70, a retired bank employ-ee who spent 10 months at the archdiocesesKateri Residence, a nursing home on theUpper West Side, after a stroke paralyzedhis right side, enjoys yoga breathing classesand discussions about black history. Yet he

    gets to spend nights and weekends with hiswife, Albertene, and daughter, Traci, bothof whom work during the day and are notaround to care for him.

    This way Im around people, he said.Dr. Fredrick T. Sherman, the Harlem

    PACE medical director, said that a 2009study showed that PACE programs reducelengths of stays in hospitals and delay as-signments to nursing homes.

    The archdiocese, whose new centers willserve a total of 1,500 people, receives an av-erage of $4,000 a month from Medicaid foreach participant and $3,300 from Medicare.By comparison, said Scott LaRue, the chiefexecutive of ArchCare, the archdiocesanhealth care network, a month of nursinghome care can cost the government $9,000.

    Ultimately, the archdiocese hopes thathalf of its elderly clients will be served incommunity settings rather than in nurs-ing homes, which currently serve about 90percent of the archdioceses clients. For-profit companies have not yet moved intothe managed care market, in part because ofuncertainties about reimbursement formulasand the risks of taking on a nursing homepopulation.

    The PACE population tends to be young-

    er than that at nursing homes, which raisesthe question of whether many PACE clientswould really need nursing homes withoutPACE. Dr. Sherman replies to such skep-ticism by saying that his clients need thatlevel of service the question is wheretheyre going to get it.

    Without PACE, he said, theyre going toend up in nursing homes.

    Care (Continued from page 3B)

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    affirms life and neither hastensdeath nor prolongs life. It allows

    one to live each day fully and as

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    Putnam County Hospice provides

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    Family members are encouraged

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    Palliative Care

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    Community banks focus attention on the needs of local families, businesses and farmers.Conversely, many of the nations megabanks are structured to place a priority on servinglarge corporations.

    Unlike many larger banks that may take deposits in one state and lend in others, commu -nity banks channel most of their loans to the neighborhoods where their depositors live andwork, helping to keep local communities vibrant and growing.

    Community bank officers are generally accessible to their customers on-site. CEOs atmegabanks are often headquartered in office suites, away from daily customer dealings.

    Community bank officers are typically deeply involved in local community affairs, whilelarge-bank officers are likely to be detached physically and emotionally from the communi-ties where their branches are located.

    Many community banks are willing to consider character, family history and discretionary

    spending in making loans. Megabanks, on the other hand, often apply impersonal quali-fication criteria, such as credit scoring, to all loan decisions without regard to individualcircumstances.

    Community banks offer nimble decision-making on business loans because decisions aremade locally. Megabanks must often convene loan-approval committees in another state.

    Because community banks are themselves small businesses, they understand the needs ofsmall-business owners. Their core concern is lending to small businesses and farms. Thecore concern of the mega banks is corporate America.

    Community Bank Advantages

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    products inched up 0.2 percent in April, but aredown 1.9 percent year over year.

    In contrast, prices for prepared asphalt, tarroofing and siding fell 2.6 percent in April and

    are down 3.3 percent from one year ago. Pricesfor plumbing fixtures and fittings decreased0.7 percent for the month, but are up 2.5 per-cent compared to the same time last year. Soft-wood lumber prices fell 0.4 percent comparedto March, but are still 3 percent higher thanthe same time last year. Iron and steel pricesslipped 0.3 percent in April and are down 1.8percent year over year.

    Crude energy materials prices dropped 6.8percent in April as crude petroleum prices fell7.9 percent. Crude energy materials pricesare down 16.3 percent compared to the same

    time last year. Overall, the nations wholesalegoods prices slipped 0.2 percent for the month,but are 1.9 percent higher than April 2011.

    AnalysisRecent news pertaining to the U.S. non-

    residential construction industry has beensomehat disheartening of late, said Associat-ed Builders and Contractors Chief Economist

    Anirban Basu. Still, at the very least, contrac-tors have been enjoying the benefits of stablematerials prices.

    Construction materials prices are now up

    just 2.5 percent on a year-over-year basis, andhardly moved in April, Basu said. However,the trajectory of prices may become more vola-tile in the months ahead with financial marketsbeing impacted by ongoing bad news fromboth Europe and the United States regardingnear-term economic prospect.

    While that should lead to a decline in ma-terials prices due to softening demand, com-modity markets are often impacted when eq-uity and bond investors reduce their exposureto other assets and move into commodities,said Basu. This is what happened during the

    early months of 2008, and it has occurred onoccasion since then.

    At this point in time, there are two sce-narios, Basu said. One would be a modera-tion of prices with inflation kept in check. Theother worse outcome would be one in whichthe economy continued to disappoint and ma-terials prices rose.

    Unemployment (Continued from page 1B)Architect (Continued from page 2B)

    students are graduating with architecturaldegrees and some competition for entry-level jobs can be anticipated. Competitionwill be especially keen for jobs at the mostprestigious architectural firms as prospec-tive architects try to build their reputation.Prospective architects who have had intern-ships while in school will have an advan-tage in obtaining positions after graduation.Opportunities will be best for those archi-tects who are able to distinguish themselvesfrom others with their creativity.

    There should be demand for architectswith knowledge of green design. Greendesign, also known as sustainable design,emphasizes the efficient use of resourcessuch as energy and water, waste and pol-

    lution reduction, conservation, and envi-ronmentally friendly design, specifications,and materials. Rising energy costs andincreased concern about the environmenthas led to many new buildings being builtgreen.

    Employment of architects is strongly tiedto the activity of the construction industryand some types of construction are sensi-tive to cyclical changes in the economy. For

    example, during recessions nonresidentialconstruction of office and retail space tendsto fall as funding for these projects becomesharder to obtain and the demand for thesespaces falls. Firms involved in the designof institutional buildings, such as schools,hospitals, nursing homes, and correctionalfacilities, will be less affected by fluctua-tions in the economy. Residential construc-tion makes up a small portion of work forarchitects, so major changes in the housingmarket would not be as significant as fluc-tuations in the nonresidential market.

    Opportunities are also geographicallysensitive, and some parts of the Nation mayhave fewer new building projects. Also,many firms specialize in specific build-

    ings, such as hospitals or office towers,and demand for these buildings may varyby region. Architects may find it increas-ingly necessary to gain reciprocity in orderto compete for the best jobs and projects inother States.

    Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S.Department of Labor, Occupational Out-look Handbook, 2010-11 Edition

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