RALEIGH - A bipartisan group of North Carolina’s congressional delegation has urged the U.S. Department of Justice to let 30,000 residents remain in their adult-care homes.
The five members – Republican Reps. Patrick T. McHenry, Sue Myrick, and Walter B. Jones and Democrats Mel Watt and Larry Kissell – signed a joint letter March 30 to Attorney General Eric Holder. Read more>>>
State action could hurt even more residents, including the mentally ill
The dire situation facing adult-care homes over mentally ill residents threatens to get even worse.
The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services now says 52 homes, up from the state’s previous estimate of 38, could face a disastrous loss of Medicaid funds. That would leave as many as 2,700 residents, including the mentally ill, with no place to go.Read more>>>
30,000 Residents May Lose Homes
Sign our online petition to Governor Perdue!
North Carolina is facing an adult-care crisis. The cost in human life and the economic impact will be larger than any storm that has hit our coast.
This storm is the result of government inaction, blindness and bungling – in Raleigh and in Washington.
But the bureaucrats won’t have to pay the price. It will be the people who live and work in North Carolina’s 1,200 adult-care homes.
The people living in adult-care homes are elderly or disabled. They need around-the-clock help.
If something isn’t done, more than 30,000 residents of adult care (or assisted living) homes will lose their homes. Another 30,000 Adult Care Home staff will lose their jobs. Read more>>>
