Tag: NC Association Long Term Care Facilities

By Emily Davis North Carolina is greying, and with it, more people are predicted to develop Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, approximately 170,000 people lived with Alzheimer’s disease in North Carolina in 2018. This statistic is projected to increase by 23.5 percent in 2025, to a total of

By Thomas Goldsmith Everyone at a General Assembly committee hearing Tuesday liked, in concept, legislation that would require North Carolina assisted living centers to have emergency electrical service on hand during power outages. After all, the residential centers known in North Carolina as adult care homes increasingly house people with debilitating illnesses and mobility problems

By Thomas Goldsmith A proposal to increase the amount of money available to North Carolina’s long-term care residents raises a compelling question: How much does a person need to live on, once room, board and medical care are provided? Interviews with long-term care residents on Medicaid and others familiar with their spending show that the

By Thomas Goldsmith With additional reporting by Rose Hoban Since 2009, North Carolinians looking for an adult care home have used a star rating system designed to show how well these assisted-living centers look after older residents and those with disabilities. Now a multi-disciplinary team mandated last year by the General Assembly is studying whether

By Frank Taylor Carolina Public Press Despite concerns about the more than 1,200 adult care homes in North Carolina that the news media and advocates for the rights of disabled people have raised in recent years, the way the state regulates these facilities hasn’t seen any dramatic changes. Some advocates say that’s because the adult

By Frank Taylor and Michael Gebelein Carolina Public Press The state is coming down hard on Cedarbrook Residential Center, a McDowell County adult care home that was previously the beneficiary of a legal settlement in which the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services agreed to fabricate a four-star rating and withdraw more than

by Frank Taylor and Michael Gebelein Carolina Public Press Cedarbrook Residential Center of Nebo, an adult care home in McDowell County with space for 80 residents, who may have mental illness and need constant assistance and supervision, boasts a perfect four-star state rating. But that rating is a work of fiction. State adult care home

By Frank Taylor Carolina Public Press The North Carolina Association, Long Term Care Facilities, which represents the adult care home industry, responded to Carolina Public Press’ recent four-part investigative series, “Questionable Care,” last week in a statement that partially agreed with CPP’s findings about the flawed regulatory system while defending its members efforts to prioritize

By Rose Hoban A bill that makes multiple tweaks to regulations in the adult care home industry made an easy transit through the General Assembly and is awaiting Gov. Roy Cooper’s signature to become law. House Bill 657 is the product of people involved in the adult care home industry – some of them longtime

As North Carolina’s Medicaid program prepares for changes, a group of policymakers is wrangling with how to care for the most difficult patients. By Rose Hoban A small group of people making decisions about big sums of money is getting close to wrapping up their work in Raleigh. The Dual Eligibles Advisory Committee has been