IONA Town Meeting                                                                                 Feb. 1, 2016

 

There was a town meeting at the St. Albans Episcopal Church to meet and have a Q&A session with the new acting executive director of the DC Office of Aging, Laura Newland. The meeting started off my allowing the attendees of the meeting to pick fresh produced from the farmers market in DuPont Circle. These items included apples, micro greens, golden beets, Brussels sprouts, Romaine Lettuce, turnips and a bag of mixed greens. The fruits and vegetables came from the nutrition department at IONA Senior Service. […]

October 8, 2015

Today I had the pleasure of listening in on a conference call between Mrs. Levy and the Advisory Commission for Money Follows the Person (MFP). MFP is a program developed through Medicaid that strives to assist states in rebalancing their Medicaid funded long-term care systems. Helping transition patients out of long-term care facilities, and back into their homes is one of the commission’s primary goals. By allowing patients to choose where they receive their care, whether it is in-home, or in a facility, people feel as though they can take control of their own bodies and healing. Providing people with a public housing voucher, known as a transition-housing voucher, is how the commission helps move people out of the nursing homes. These are given to patients who are able to move out of a long-term care facility and live on their own with some supports.

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