Low census at the Grand Traverse Pavilions has the county-owned nursing facility in the red. The difference is being made up by “vouchers” from a Grand Traverse County fund to the tune of about $3.5 million — an amount that is growing every month. The Pavilions is waiting on more than $10 million in Employee Retention Benefit money and Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements, CEO Rose Coleman reported several times this year. That payment might come in September.
