On July 1, the Governor’s Office of Financial Management slashed the $9 PPD COVID-19 assisted living center Medicaid rate add-on provided through federal dollars intended to support management and mitigation of this deadly virus. Outbreak numbers are up, and costs for supplies, staffing and infection control efforts have increased markedly. The state’s failure to provide critically necessary emergency funding is hindering providers’ ability to combat the virus, to the great risk of patients and their caregivers.
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Bottom line: The Governor and your legislators must hear from our entire community—providers, caregivers, families and friends.
Emergency funds must be reinstated to battle a deadly virus that targets older citizens with co-existing conditions that put them at greatest risk—residents of Washington assisted living centers.
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Thanks for all you do to advocate for our most vulnerable.