Montana seniors feel pain of losing Medicaid
Nursing homes, assisted living facilities and other senior-serving organizations are faced with an impossible choice: continue providing health care to aging adults, or risk running out of money.
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Nursing homes, assisted living facilities and other senior-serving organizations are faced with an impossible choice: continue providing health care to aging adults, or risk running out of money.
The lack of beds at Warm Springs has backed up so severely that some prisoners waiting for a mental health evaluation often sit for months in Missoula.
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Almost a decade ago, the Downtown Billings Alliance (DBA) launched the Motived Alternatives to Addiction Program, modelled off a program in San Diego, which sought to join law enforcement, courts and treatment providers to address substance abuse in the downtown homeless population by offering treatment in lieu of jail time when facing several open containers and trespassing offenses.
State health department officials lauded the 2022 change as an expansion in access to care, saying it increased the houses' pay and matched the cost to operate.