According to Mitchell Area Safehouse officials’ letter to the city, the new building would allow its clients to have more space to social distance and quarantine as the COVID-19 pandemic still looms.
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Elder care advocates are urging state lawmakers to reduce the number of Illinoisans receiving long-term care at nursing homes after a study showing many of Illinois’ early COVID-19 deaths occurred at facilities that were both overcrowded and understaffed.
According to 2017 data reported by the AARP, 10% of residents living in Illinois nursing homes have “low care needs”, which is higher than the 8.9% national average.
Nursing home critics say because a number of facilities struggled to control viral transmissions among residents during the pandemic, the state should prioritize at-home and community-based care services.
“For too long, our state has relied on institutional settings such as nursing homes to meet the needs of seniors and people with disabilities. This needs to change,” Services Employees International Union Executive Vice President Erica Bland-Durosinmi told lawmakers at a hearing last week. “We need to look at expanding home and
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Illinois should focus on home and community based services more than long-term care institutions, eldercare advocates say.
Elder care advocates are urging state lawmakers to reduce the number of Illinoisans receiving long-term care at nursing homes after a study showing many of Illinois’ early COVID-19 deaths occurred at facilities that were both overcrowded and understaffed.
According to 2017 data reported by the AARP, 10% of residents living in Illinois nursing homes have “low care needs”, which is higher than the 8.9% national average.
Nursing home critics say because a number of facilities struggled to control viral transmissions among residents during the pandemic, the state should prioritize at-home and community-based care services.
The Daily Herald
As Maury County Public Schools prepares to take bids for the sale of the historic McDowell Elementary School property, some members of the Maury County Commission are considering asking the school board for the first chance to acquire the site.
Ahead of the school board’s Tuesday regular meeting, Maury County Commission Chairman Don Morrow stressing that he does not speak for the full commission told fellow commissioners that he plans to approach the school board to reiterate the county s interest in the property.
“It may be worth a visit from a district commissioner to say hold the process,” Morrow said during a county building committee meeting Monday night. “There are seven acres of land there that maybe we could utilize.”