Kentucky Attorney General wants more.Kentucky Attorney General Ben Chandler For other persons of the same name, see Albert Chandler. Albert Benjamin "Ben" Chandler III (born September 12 1959) is an American politician from Kentucky. He is the member of the House of Representatives for Kentucky's At-large congressional district and was first elected in asked the state's General Assembly to endorse the idea of more inspectors to monitor nursing homes, salary raises for certified nursing assistants and other frontline workers, and a task force to study ways to improve nursing home care as well as ways to keep senior citizens in their homes. Senior citizen advocates and health care providers that make up the Nursing Home Ombudsman Agency of the Bluegrass bluegrass, any species of the large and widely distributed genus Poa, chiefly range and pasture grasses of economic importance in temperate and cool regions. In general, bluegrasses are perennial with fine-leaved foliage that is bluish green in some species. initiated these three resolutions. Among their requests, the agency would like the 2000 Kentucky General Assembly The Kentucky General Assembly, also called the Kentucky Legislature, is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Kentucky. The General Assembly meets annually in the state capitol building in Frankfort, Kentucky, convening on the first Tuesday after the first Monday to make an additional $1.5 million available than was originally requested by the Cabinet for Health Services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract . This surplus would pay for at least 28 new state health care inspectors. Moreover, the resolution requests that any new funds for nursing home care be applied only to hike staff salaries. Chandler would like to require some federal and state Medicaid money to be put toward salaries instead of nursing home administration. Chandler made the request for these three initiatives at meetings held in October and December of 1999, addressing Kentucky stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. , legislators, regulators, funding sources, and provider community members. "By consensus, they supported how to get at providing quality long term care," says Kathy Gannoe, a Bluegrass district ombudsman. The three outcomes by consensus included a resolution for a 26-member task force to look at the continuum of long term care. "It will have heavy legislative membership and high-level representatives from the stakeholding community," Gannoe says. "It will be appointed by July 1, 2000; a report will be due Sept. 1, 2001." The second piece that Chandler put forth is full funding for survey and certification people. "They've been under-funded," Gannoe says. The third proposition is a way for wage pass-through that would allow money to go solely and directly to direct care staff and not to nursing home administration. No fewer than six other states have similar laws that increased salaries by at least $1 an hour, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the attorney general's office. "In 20 years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time elderly population will increase by more than 50 percent in most Kentucky counties," Chandler reportedly said. |
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