Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen led a roundtable discussion on long-term care at St. Barnabas Senior Living Services’ new skilled nursing facility this afternoon, responding to concerns from area caregivers, social workers and providers of long-term care services.
Panelists included Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield and Hamilton County Mayor Claude Ramsey, as well as representatives from Alexian Brothers’ PACE program, the Southeast Tennessee Area Agency on Aging and Disability and the Tennessee AARP. A number of community members caring for elderly or disabled family members were also members of the panel.
Gov. Bredesen discussed his proposed Long-Term Care Community Choices Act. The legislation is designed in part to facilitate access to the home and community-based care waiver, which the governor said can be a cost-effective alternative to nursing home care.
See tomorrow’s Chattanooga Times Free Press for complete coverage.
Health care reporter Emily Bregel has worked at the Chattanooga Times Free Press since July 2006. She previously covered banking and wrote for the Life section. Emily, a native of Baltimore, Md., earned a bachelor’s degree in American Studies from Columbia University. She received a first-place award for feature writing from the East Tennessee Society of Professional Journalists’ Golden Press Card Contest for a 2009 article about a boy with a congenital heart defect. She ...
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