Regional Digest
Regional Digest
• Home Care Services (Raymond, IL) and Cottage Adult Day Service (Jacksonville, IL) will close their operations. About 90 people in the Raymond area and five in the Jacksonville area will be affected, reported the State Journal-Register of Springfield, IL. The organizations cited finances as the reason for the closings. All of the people affected are clients of the Illinois Department on Aging's Community Care Program, which contracts with places like Home Care Services and Cottage Adult Day Service to serve its clients, the Journal-Register reported. Kelly Cunningham, bureau chief of the department’s division of long term care services, said last week that displaced clients in Montgomery County will have more options than the ones in Jacksonville. Montgomery County has two other care providers under contract with the agency into which the 92 clients will be absorbed, she told the Journal-Register.
• An in-home care program intended to keep seniors in their homes has the added benefit of saving money for Oklahoma, Department of Human Services (Oklahoma City, OK) officials say. The Advantage waiver program began as a pilot project in Tulsa, OK, in 1994, reported Tulsa World. It is now available statewide for residents who meet certain Medicaid criteria. The program provides home care for 9,811 people across the state, Tulsa World reported.
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