Tennessee Disability Coalition News Blog

FY 2006: Medicaid Expenditures for Institutions versus Community- Based Services, Information Bulletin # 216 (8/07).
Medicaid data for FY 2006 provides extremely helpful information to analyze and compare how your State distributes and allocates its Medicaid Long Term Care expenditures between its institutional versus community-based services.
Nationally, for all disabilities, 60.6 % of MA’s long term care [...]

The following news story highlights one of Tennessee Citizen Action’s most important issues-holding Tennessee’s nursing home industry accountable for the health and well-being of those who are entirely dependent on the services provided to them.
Typically, nursing home neglect is the result of having too few staff caring for too many frail people-a staffing decision made [...]