FLORIDA LEGISLATORS MUST KEEP THEIR PROMISE TO SUPPORT QUALITY NURSING HOME CARE
Voters across Florida agree: the state must keep its promise to fully fund quality nursing home care.
Florida legislators approved landmark elder care facility reform legislation in 2001 that mandated increased minimum staffing requirements, tougher regulation and quality improvement and risk management programs. Since then, nursing home quality has steadily improved. Stability must be brought to the Medicaid program or threaten this progress and the vulnerable elderly who have nowhere else to go.
Health care providers like nursing homes have historically been underfunded by Medicaid. Nursing homes cannot continue to be held accountable by the state for standards of care that the state legislators refuse to fund.
Read more about these issues here. Learn how you can take action and give facilities the resources they need to provide quality, skilled nursing care.
