Seniors & Workers for Quality

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) and Lynne Zimmerman (Adult Day Services Director, Common Sense Services for Seniors, South St. Paul). Both speakers did a wonderful job articulating the need for a long-term care COLA despite the state’s fiscal woes.

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.

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 found on pages 174-179. Click here to read Across the States: Profiles of Long-Term Care and Assisted Living.

Please click here for the newest Profile in Care.

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.

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 Tuesday, March 10.

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 16^th in the Senate Health, Housing & Family Security Committee at 12:30 p.m. 

On January 29, 2009, HF0351 was introduced in the House of Representatives. Thank you to House authors Representatives Fritz, Abeler, Murphy, Liebling, Hayden, Hosch, Thissen, Slawik & Bly.

The companion bill, SF0475 was introduced on February 5, 2009 in the Senate.  Thank you to Senate authors Senators Marty, Rosen, Koering, Doll & Fischbach. 

Click here for the newest Profile in Care from District 39B and Adult Day Services.