IHCA
Legislative Town Hall Meetings - IHCA is conducting a number of town halls around the State to generate input to build a compelling 2010 legislative agenda for long term and post acute care. As of this week, the following meetings are confirmed:
8/24/09
Sen. Sue Erringon
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Golden Living Center
2701 Lyn-Mar Drive
Muncie, IN 47304
8/25/09
Rep. Don Lehe
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. (CST)
Regency Place of Dyer
2300 Great Lakes Drive
Dyer, IN 46311
8/26/09
Rep. Charlie Brown
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. (CST)
South Shore Health and Rehabilitation
353 Tyler St.
Gary, IN 46402
Who should attend: Administrators, staff (including but not limited to all level nurses, activity directors, etc.), members of resident councils, social service representatives, resident families and all others with an interest in long term and post acute care issues.
Please RSVP by calling 317-616-9013 or emailing amendoza@ihca.org Don't see your community? Stay tuned. We are scheduling more town hall meetings and will update this page in the future.
***Please note this new meeting location.
For questions, please contact Amy Mendoza, director of public affairs and communication at 800-466-IHCA or amendoza@ihca.org.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Friday, August 7, 2009
Newburgh Dislocated Worker Pilot Program A Success!
Matching Dislocated Workers with Employment in Long Term Care
IHCF and Indiana Department of Workforce Development are planning statewide career fairs for dislocated workers. The Dislocated Worker Pilot Program was launched at Millers Merry Manor in Wakarusa this past spring. A second program was launched on August 7, 2009 in Newburgh. The career fair introduced long term care careers to dislocated workers in the local area. The hands-on-approach assist unemployed workers in identifying careers in long term care. IHCF will be contacting members to serve as host facility for the career fair and invite human resource representative to attend the career fair.
Next Dislocated Worker Career Fair: Coming soon!
Career fairs will be held through August and September. Check back frequently to view future dates.
Dislocated Worker Program Fact Sheet (PDF, 47kb)
For additional information, contact Dorothy Henry, Executive Director at dhenry@ihca.org or at 317-646-6406 ext. 207.
IHCF and Indiana Department of Workforce Development are planning statewide career fairs for dislocated workers. The Dislocated Worker Pilot Program was launched at Millers Merry Manor in Wakarusa this past spring. A second program was launched on August 7, 2009 in Newburgh. The career fair introduced long term care careers to dislocated workers in the local area. The hands-on-approach assist unemployed workers in identifying careers in long term care. IHCF will be contacting members to serve as host facility for the career fair and invite human resource representative to attend the career fair.
Next Dislocated Worker Career Fair: Coming soon!
Career fairs will be held through August and September. Check back frequently to view future dates.
Dislocated Worker Program Fact Sheet (PDF, 47kb)
For additional information, contact Dorothy Henry, Executive Director at dhenry@ihca.org or at 317-646-6406 ext. 207.
Monday, August 3, 2009
IHCA President: Massive Federal Medicare Cuts Will Hurt Seniors, Cost Jobs
Urges Indiana Congressional Delegation to Help Ensure Seniors’ Care Needs Remain
Key Priority of Health Care Reform
Indianapolis, IN – The President of the Indiana Health Care Association (IHCA) warned
that new federal Medicare cuts of up to $16 billion resulting from a recent announcement by the Obama Administration that it has put into effect a new Medicare regulation will significantly endanger Indiana seniors’ care and jeopardize the state’s already fragile economy and caregiver jobs base.
“We intend to make certain the interests of seniors remain a priority for lawmakers as they pursue health care reform in Washington, and will make sure they understand that the Medicare funding cuts on top of the Medicaid funding crisis already facing Indiana’s seniors and providers is unsustainable,” Stephen Smith, President of IHCA said.
Continued Smith: “Having now just suffered a massive Medicare funding cut of up to
$16 billion – distinct and separate from the reductions our sector has willingly and
cooperatively agreed to shoulder as part of achieving broader reform – we are alarmed
the sheer size of the cumulative cuts we ultimately suffer will be especially damaging to seniors in states like Indiana, where our Medicaid program is already under extreme strain. Medicare and Medicaid funding are inextricably linked, and the combination of cuts to both programs squeezes our local facilities in a manner harmful to Medicare beneficiaries’ care needs, detrimental to our state’s local economy, and injurious to our caregiver jobs base.”
Smith noted that Indiana nursing homes are seeing an increasingly diverse patient base, and providing a greater variety of acute care, rehabilitative and convalescent services that cannot be delivered elsewhere – care services which are now in jeopardy due to the sheer size and scope of the Medicare funding cuts. These massive funding cuts, Smith said, will undermine facilities’ ability to effectively treat this more medically complex patient population, and also put the jobs of the direct care workforce they depend upon in substantial danger.
“Achieving a sweeping health care reform bill we can all be proud of, and which will
improve the health of every Indiana resident is a necessity, not an option,” Smith
continued. Yet, protecting vulnerable seniors in the process must always remain a key
priority from which we must not deviate.”
During the upcoming August recess, Smith said, the long-term care community will ask
federal lawmakers to keep the interests of seniors and those who care for them foremost in their minds. “We intend to explain in a tangible, informative manner why it is essential for Congress, upon its return to Washington in September, to recalibrate its thinking on health care reform and scale back these enormous Medicare cuts.”
About the Indiana Health Care Association (IHCA)
The Indiana Health Care Association is Indiana's largest trade association and advocate representing proprietary, not-for-profit and hospital-based nursing home and assisted living communities, adult foster care and adult day services. IHCA's 264 member facilities care for more than 25,000 of Indiana's geriatric and developmentally disabled citizens, the majority of whom are low-income Medicaid recipients. To learn more about IHCA, visit http://www.ihca.org/.
Key Priority of Health Care Reform
Indianapolis, IN – The President of the Indiana Health Care Association (IHCA) warned
that new federal Medicare cuts of up to $16 billion resulting from a recent announcement by the Obama Administration that it has put into effect a new Medicare regulation will significantly endanger Indiana seniors’ care and jeopardize the state’s already fragile economy and caregiver jobs base.
“We intend to make certain the interests of seniors remain a priority for lawmakers as they pursue health care reform in Washington, and will make sure they understand that the Medicare funding cuts on top of the Medicaid funding crisis already facing Indiana’s seniors and providers is unsustainable,” Stephen Smith, President of IHCA said.
Continued Smith: “Having now just suffered a massive Medicare funding cut of up to
$16 billion – distinct and separate from the reductions our sector has willingly and
cooperatively agreed to shoulder as part of achieving broader reform – we are alarmed
the sheer size of the cumulative cuts we ultimately suffer will be especially damaging to seniors in states like Indiana, where our Medicaid program is already under extreme strain. Medicare and Medicaid funding are inextricably linked, and the combination of cuts to both programs squeezes our local facilities in a manner harmful to Medicare beneficiaries’ care needs, detrimental to our state’s local economy, and injurious to our caregiver jobs base.”
Smith noted that Indiana nursing homes are seeing an increasingly diverse patient base, and providing a greater variety of acute care, rehabilitative and convalescent services that cannot be delivered elsewhere – care services which are now in jeopardy due to the sheer size and scope of the Medicare funding cuts. These massive funding cuts, Smith said, will undermine facilities’ ability to effectively treat this more medically complex patient population, and also put the jobs of the direct care workforce they depend upon in substantial danger.
“Achieving a sweeping health care reform bill we can all be proud of, and which will
improve the health of every Indiana resident is a necessity, not an option,” Smith
continued. Yet, protecting vulnerable seniors in the process must always remain a key
priority from which we must not deviate.”
During the upcoming August recess, Smith said, the long-term care community will ask
federal lawmakers to keep the interests of seniors and those who care for them foremost in their minds. “We intend to explain in a tangible, informative manner why it is essential for Congress, upon its return to Washington in September, to recalibrate its thinking on health care reform and scale back these enormous Medicare cuts.”
About the Indiana Health Care Association (IHCA)
The Indiana Health Care Association is Indiana's largest trade association and advocate representing proprietary, not-for-profit and hospital-based nursing home and assisted living communities, adult foster care and adult day services. IHCA's 264 member facilities care for more than 25,000 of Indiana's geriatric and developmentally disabled citizens, the majority of whom are low-income Medicaid recipients. To learn more about IHCA, visit http://www.ihca.org/.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
