Taking all these criteria into account, we developed this alphabetical list of the
long term care industry's cream of the crop--the 2005 class of CLTC's Power & Influence Top 25.
When you say
long term care, most people think of a nursing home for end-of-life care," said John Noble, director of
long term care products.
Instead of a cohesive national policy to ensure access to
long term care, our citizens face a "patchwork" of programs that is inefficient, inequitable and often ineffective.
The laptops were important because Kollmann, SCTC's Past Director of Nursing Jan Hooper, and Kathy Gilbride, who was the director of SCTC's Center for Customized Training and Development when the program started, decided that
Long Term Care Connections would be supplemented with additional Web-based training materials.
Another issue affecting
long term care is the absence of a nationally implemented product-classification system for standardized universal-product and health-information numbers.
Medicaid requires that private assets above a certain threshold must be spent for
long term care and exhausted before the client can become eligible for Medicaid funds.
So, here's the history of
long term care in a nutshell: The government anesthetized the public to the cost of
long term care by providing free nursing home care through Medicaid and extended home health benefits through Medicare.
It's also a credit to organizations such as The
Long Term Care Campaign [less than]www.
The Civil Service
Long Term Care Insurance Benefit Act (HR 602), introduced by Representative Joe Scarborough (R-Fla.
The need for quality long-term-care information and competitive quotes for LTC coverage has spurred CarePathways and
Long Term Care Insurance Planners to join in a partnership.
That, though, will change by summer, when a hybrid company called
Long Term Care Partners, LLC, will offer group rate long-term care insurance to the families of more than 20 million federal government employees and retirees.
The piece that would encourage federal retirees to get
long term care insurance looks like it's going to happen, too," says Scott Parkin, a spokesperson for the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging.
