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My Mother is in a Nursing Home in Ohio, it’s no longer “public,” and it has been sold already within a couple years, a couple times. Initially they took Medicaid, for which she didn’t qualify given she is just old, not ill, at age 95. During this time we have
seen the downsizing of staff, and staff qualifications, after all, it’s all about profit for the owners.
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<div class="">What happens when her money runs out and she can no longer afford the $5,000 - $6,000 a month, will the new owners still take Medicaid? There are very few alternatives in the area, taking Medicaid that are suitable. </div>
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<div class="">On Mar 25, 2017, at 13:12, kmedina67 via Peace <<a href="mailto:peace@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">I would like to move this conversation to the sister list, peace-discuss (peace is for events, which is the main point of my original post). Diana, are you on the peace-discuss list?</div>
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<div class="">Yes, all the nursing homes i know of do take some Medicaid and Medicare patients. </div>
<div class="">1) It is a question of how many patients, how long, and what restrictions they put on it. And, if ever there is a threat to medicaid payments, like there is going on right now with the state being way behind on the processing of the medicaid,
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<div class="">2) having more space for medicaid patients is not the only advantage to a public nursing home.</div>
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<div class="">On a side note, there is a tendency to expect medicaid to be there for our families. Medicaid and medicare are a tax supported programs, i.e. Socialized care for the good of us all. </div>
<div class="">But some of the same people who like medicaid claim that privatizing services is the way they would prefer things to be. I am not sure we can have it both ways.</div>
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<div class="">To: Karen Medina <<a href="mailto:kmedina67@gmail.com" class="">kmedina67@gmail.com</a>>, Peace List <<a href="mailto:peace@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace@lists.chambana.net</a>>
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<div class="">Subject: Re: [Peace] Fwd: Nursing Home Days of Action this Weekend!
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I've had the misfortune of having had parents in 7 facilities (assisted living and nursing homes) in Champaign County. As far as I know, all facilities in the county, other than Meadowbrook, take both Medicare and Medicaid. Meadowbrook only takes Medicare
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Below is a forwarded invitation to help canvass for the nursing home this weekend.
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If you have time, please consider canvassing (knocking on doors or phone calling) for the Champaign County Nursing Home issue...<br class="">
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Saturday, March 25 (today) and Sunday, March 26, 2017<br class="">
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from 1pm-4pm. (You can help for an hour or all three)<br class="">
(see details of where and the wording on the ballot in the forwarded message below)<br class="">
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* The entire county will be voting on the issue, not just the towns of Champaign and Urbana. This means we need as many people as possible voting.<br class="">
* We need to educate as many people as possible. Some people may not even know about the April 4th election, even more people may not know about the Nursing Home issue.
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* Increasing taxes is not easy. In these hard times of the state of Illinois being way behind on paying its bills, a tax increase could be seem like a hardship on some people (about $30 for the average home), but in the long term keeping the nursing home from
being privatized will (I believe) save the people of the county a lot of money. The county nursing home takes in people that the privatized nursing homes don't.
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<div class="yiv0819864968gmail_quote">* Privatizing services seems to be the way everything is going and people seem to be willing to let this happen. Because of this privatization, our county no longer has many of the services every community needs in order
to be healthy. A nursing home for our seniors and recovering patients is one of those services that is vital; we all benefit from having it. I am willing to pay to keep it. Once something is privatized, we no longer have oversight as a community.
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<div class="yiv0819864968gmail_quote">Please consider helping to get the word out.
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<span dir="ltr" class=""></span>Join our fight and come out and let voters know how to support the Champaign County Nursing Home in the April 4th Election!
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<div class="">We are going to knock on doors and make phone calls to inform voters in Champaign and Urbana. There will be a training on how to talk about the issues and what to expect going door to door or making calls. </div>
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<div class="">Come out <b class=""><u class="">Saturday the 25th</u></b> or <u class="">
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