The city and Albany Care are still working through discovery on the preliminary injunction request, with the facility planning to take depositions from three city officials. Albany Care attorney Eric Grodsky told the judge he’d had a “productive conversation” on a settlement with Assistant City Attorney Mark Alanson, but that Deputy City Attorney Cynthia Grandfield later got involved and rejected the offer. “The City is seeking additional and more substantial relief related to those incidents, as well as the serious nature of the ongoing issues at Albany Care.” IDPH has sole regulatory authority over Albany Care and other SMHRFs, leaving the city few options to directly compel facility changes outside of a lawsuit. Albany Care has faced repeated sanctions and restrictions in recent years over earlier resident deaths, sexual assaults and violent incidents around the property.