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For more information about the story "hooks" listed below, or to set up an
interview, start by calling Joanne O'Connor at NYSHFA Headquarters in Albany at (518) 462-4800,
or emailing him at joconnor@nyshfa.org.
Five Factors in
Choosing a Nursing Home: With 2.4 million New Yorkers age 65 and up and baby boomers starting
to retire, more families are facing decisions about long term care for themselves and for loved ones.
NYSHFA's "Five Factors in Choosing a Nursing Home" provides helpful tips and valuable on-line
resources to help families evaluate long term care facilities.
Click here for the full text.
Nurse Leadership Institute: The Nurse Leadership Institute was launched two
years ago in an effort to address New York State's nursing shortage and create more stability
in the long term care workforce. NLI provides nurse leaders with valuable management training
while building a strong statewide support network within the long term care nursing profession.
Since it started, more than 200 nurse leaders around the state have graduated from the program.
Developed by the Foundation for Quality Care, a non-profit educational foundation affiliated
with the New York State Health Facilities Association, this innovative program is assisted
by funds made available under New York State's Workforce Development Grants and provides
college-level credits through the State University of New York Institute of Technology's
(SUNYIT) School of Nursing and Health Systems in Utica.
Changing Face of Nursing Homes: The number of nursing facility patients
discharged to a lower level of care or to their home has increased by 300% since 1991. These
figures reflect a change in the resident make-up of nursing homes, as an increasingly number
of facilities offer short-term rehabilitative care.
Fixing the Medicaid Reimbursement Gap: NYSHFA is one of three statewide
associations representing nursing homes, which are working together to find meaningful solutions
to New York's Medicaid reimbursement crisis. Reimbursement rates for New York State nursing
homes are currently based on medical costs in 1983 - the oldest such base year in the country.
With more than 80% of nursing home residents currently covered by Medicaid, the reimbursement
gap is putting the future of New York's long term care system in jeopardy.
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