Tennessee Disability Coalition News Blog

Now It’s the General Assembly’s Turn
Learn below how you can build momentum for reform!
 
The legislative process can be long and complex with many detours that can sidetrack the best of legislation. Governor Bredesen’s “Long Term Care Community Choices Act of 2008” will face endless resistance from special interest groups with a long history of influence [...]

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 [...]

Last spring the legislature passed a bill that will eventually add 160 private ICF/MR beds. This law does so without ensuring that individuals in developmental centers or ICF/MRs (Intermediate Care Facilities/Mental Retardation) will also have a greater opportunity to choose home and community-based services (HCBS). However, the bill did grant the state greater [...]