Legislation Could Provide More Funding to Adult Home Care
Providers in Exchange for Quality Care Improvements
Providers in Exchange for Quality Care Improvements
By Dan Rosenblum
Adult home care providers are urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign a bill
that would increase subsidies for those who house and care for seniors
and adults with disabilities. Advocates for residents say any subsidy
boost should be tied to additional oversight measures to guard against
excessive salaries for facility managers, poor quality programs and
fiscal mismanagement.
“One message that I hope the industry will absorb is that one of the
major obstacles to appropriate funding for adult homes is concern about
quality of care at many of them,” Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, who
chairs the health committee, told New York Nonprofit Media. “I think the
higher quality adult homes need to understand that the problems with
many of the other adult homes is holding back their own viability.”
Adult home care providers say that, with few exceptions, they are
managing a chronic existential financial burden resulting from a federal
Supplemental Security Income subsidy that has not increased in line
with overhead expenses, leading to the closure of some facilities and
reduced services at others.
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Source: City & State
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