http://www.seniorsandworkers.org Representing the People at the Heart of Long-Term Care Mon, 03 May 2010 22:30:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Seniors and Workers for Quality has been lobbying hard this session to prevent the repeal of Minnesota's rate equalization law, which prevents nursing homes from charging more to private-pay residents of nursing homes than the Medical Assistance reimbursement rate for the same services. We encourage you to contact your Senator ... http://www.seniorsandworkers.org/?p=271 Al visits his wife daily in the nursing facility and the staff at the nursing facility need him almost as much as he and Alice need them. Please read their story here. http://www.seniorsandworkers.org/?p=264 Seniors and Workers for Quality Coalition www.seniorsandworkers.org CALL TO ACTION! On Monday, March 30th, a member of the House of Representatives asked if nursing homes were really hurting because he had not heard from any of his constituents asking him to protect Long-Term Care! Please take 5 minutes to call and/or email your legislator ... http://www.seniorsandworkers.org/?p=257 SF 475 (Marty), the Long-Term Care COLA bill was heard on Monday, March 16th in the Senate Health, Housing & Family Security committee. Two Seniors & Workers for Quality coalition members testified: Synarvia Buckanon (AFSCME Local 636 president & Direct Care Worker, Good Samaritan Society University Specialty Care Center, Minneapolis) ... http://www.seniorsandworkers.org/?p=241 Agnes in district 7B doesn't have much left at the end of the month and lives paycheck to paycheck. However, she loves her job and the people she cares for. Read her story here. http://www.seniorsandworkers.org/?p=238 Across the States was designed by AARP to help inform policy discussions about Long-Term Care aross the U.S. This series brings together the most up to date material from a wide range of sources that reviews state and national data on the Long-Term Care industry. Minnesota specific information may be ... http://www.seniorsandworkers.org/?p=233 Please click here for the newest Profile in Care. http://www.seniorsandworkers.org/?p=227 Erma in District 65 shares her story in this week's Profiles in Care. Click here to read her story and all the stories shared by workers and others touched closely by the Long-Term Care crisis in Minnesota. http://www.seniorsandworkers.org/?p=221 H.F.818, the Vulnerable Adult bill was heard and passed in the House Public Safety and Oversight Committee on March 5, and will go next to the Labor and Consumer Protection Committee of the Commerce Committee.  S.F. 758, its companion, will have its first hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee on ... http://www.seniorsandworkers.org/?p=182 There will be a hearing on long-term care bills, which will include the Long-Term Care Provider Rate Increase bill SF 475, on March 16th in the Senate Health, Housing & Family Security Committee at 12:30 p.m.  http://www.seniorsandworkers.org/?p=177