Long term care leaders urge more funding to prevent more closures of nursing homes
January 3, 2024
Within the last decade, 23 nursing homes in Maine have closed, prompting long term care advocates, providers and industry leaders Wednesday to urge lawmakers to provide additional funding to prevent more closures.
“This is a call to action to address what has become a crisis in our long term services and support system resulting in the closure of nursing homes and residential care facilities across the state,” Brenda Gallant, the state long term care ombudsman, told a group of lawmakers Wednesday.
Since 1995, Maine’s number of nursing homes have decreased from 132 to 81, according to data presented to lawmakers.
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