Numerous state and county agencies have a hand in the placements
Posted by Kim on October 21st, 2007 / Print This Post
This is fraud.
Some Cuyahoga County nursing homes have become warehouses for the homeless and mentally ill, using millions of taxpayer dollars to house patients who often don’t qualify for the care. Medicaid pays nursing homes to take in hundreds of Cuyahoga patients discharged every year from hospital psychiatric wards. The mentally ill are eligible for admission to nursing homes only if they need 24-hour supervision or hands-on assistance. But 60 percent of the psychiatric patients admitted into Cuyahoga nursing homes, most on Medicaid’s dime, don’t need the care, the state found.
Read the entire article, which is 5 pages long. Ohio needs to figure out where to place their homeless and mentally ill citizens AND keep the elderly and frail safe. It appears as though the nursing home industry is taking advantage of these people and placing the others at risk.