Families scrambling for elder-care beds as suspension of PACE program creates “bottleneck” in Denver area by megwingerter
, and that clients hadn’t consistently received basic services like insulin injections, wound care and assistance getting in and out of bed.
“The InnovAge freeze is creating a bottleneck and Denver does not have enough Medicaid assisted living and memory care beds to compensate for the frozen InnovAge beds,” she said. “This is especially problematic for anyone that needs secure memory care.” “If you’re going to be selective about where you send your loved one, you may only have one or two options,” she said.
“The intent of all the long-term service programs with which we work is to help people to maintain as much independence as possible while remaining in their homes and communities,” she said. Rebecca Edmonds, right, visits with her father Ramon Fuentes Jr. in his room at Lark Springs Memory Care in Colorado Springs on Sept. 13, 2022. Judy Gaylor, of Omaha, Nebraska, said her sister-in-law Sharron Gaylor had to move to three different Denver-area facilities in the past year, trying to find one that offered the memory care she needed and that would take her coverage.
Dave Lewis, who owns 14 small assisted living facilities, estimated his facilities have five residents who expected PACE to take over covering their care by now, and five more will be in that situation in the near future. He said only one of his facilities accepts Medicaid, and he doesn’t want to get the others certified, following disagreements over whether they could have a camera in a common area and whether cognitively impaired residents should be issued room keys.
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