<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px">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 in their rehabilitation unit and is the only facility I've encountered that mostly takes private pay.<br><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490450986318_18749"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490450986318_18785"><span>Dianna</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Saturday, March 25, 2017 8:20 AM, Karen Medina via Peace <peace@lists.chambana.net> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv0819864968"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Dear Peace,<br></div><div><br>Below is a forwarded invitation to help canvass for the nursing home this weekend. <br><br></div>If you have time, please consider canvassing (knocking on doors or phone calling) for the Champaign County Nursing Home issue...<br></div>Saturday, March 25 (today) and Sunday, March 26, 2017<br></div>from 1pm-4pm. (You can help for an hour or all three)<br>(see details of where and the wording on the ballot in the forwarded message below)<br><br></div><div>Why do I think canvassing is extremely important?<br></div>* 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>* 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. <br></div>* 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. <br><div><div><div><div><div><div><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. <br><br></div><div class="yiv0819864968gmail_quote">Please consider helping to get the word out. <br></div><div class="yiv0819864968gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="yiv0819864968gmail_quote">Pace e bene,<br></div><div class="yiv0819864968gmail_quote">-- karen medina<br>"The really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain<br></div><div class="yiv0819864968gmail_signature">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span dir="ltr"></span>Join our fight and come out and let voters know how to support the Champaign County Nursing Home in the April 4th Election!<div dir="ltr"><div class="yiv0819864968gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>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><div><br></div><div>Come out <b><u>Saturday the 25th</u></b> or <u><b>Sunday the 26th</b></u>:</div><div><br></div><div>Meet at: </div><div>1pm-4pm</div><div>110 S. Neil St.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0);">DONATE TODAY AT <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://champaigncountycare.org/">CHAMPAIGNCOUNTYCARE.ORG</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><font size="4">SHARE THE SAMPLE BALLOT WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS!</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><img alt="Inline image 1" src="cid:BivYf6tvm4qcJL1Bjy28" height="484" width="313"><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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