President Barack Obama is expected to reveal his 2010 budget proposal on Thursday.  This has caused great concern with healthcare groups around the country that want Obama to protect Medicaid funding for skilled nursing facilities.  Learn about how this issue could impact quality cargiving in an article from McKnight’s Long Term Care.

“From a policy perspective, it would be illogical to encourage job creation through the stimulus law on one hand while, on the other, placing enormous pressure on providers to cut jobs by enacting federal Medicare cuts,” said coalition spokeswoman Lori Porter. “The bottom line: Maintaining Medicaid funding for skilled nursing care must be a top administration healthcare priority if frontline caregivers are to be able to ensure quality caregiving at the bedside.”

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