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Budget Amendments - HB1650 (Member Request)

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Chief Patron: O'Bannon
Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program

Item 280 #5h

Item 280 #5h

First Year - FY2007 Second Year - FY2008
Health And Human Resources
Aging, Department for the FY2007 $0 FY2008 $912,840 GF

Language
Page 291, line 46, strike "$30,806,751" and insert "$31,719,591".


Explanation
(This amendment provides $912,840 from the general fund in the second year funding to the Department of Aging to expand the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program that is operated at the local level by Area Agencies on Aging. This amendment would complete statewide funding of this program, and provide sufficient funds for each local program to employ one ombudsman for every 2,000 licensed nursing home and adult care residence beds in the community. This level of staffing has been recommended by the National Institute of Medicine.)