Vintage Senior Services of East Liberty ending adult day care
After 31 years of providing day care for elderly people as an alternative to a nursing home, Vintage Senior Services in East Liberty is phasing out that service through June. It will continue to operate as a senior center. The cost of adult day care has outpaced the flat funding levels of recent years, executive director Ann Truxell said.
Louisiana rolls out new Medicaid managed care program
Louisiana's Medicaid program on Wednesday started providing health care through private managed care networks in nine parishes around New Orleans, the first step in a sweeping revamp of the program that provides care to the poor.
Toward More Efficient Care
Canada spends more than $47 billion a year on hospital care, and has over 70,000 hospital beds. Yet accessing these beds when they?re needed most remains an important public health concern. Patients regularly experience long emergency-room waits and cancelled surgeries as a result of the health system?s inability to make hospital beds readily available. Understandably, frustrations run high.
