Free Webinar: Resident Rights in Medicaid-Funded Assisted Living and Group Homes
From Justice in Aging
Resident Rights in Medicaid-Funded Assisted Living and Group Homes
When: Thursday, December 14, 2023, 11:00am PT/2:00pm ET
Medicaid increasingly can pay for assisted living services or for comparable services provided in a group home or other residential facility for persons with disabilities. As a condition of accepting Medicaid payment, the facility must honor resident rights set by federal law.
Highlights of this webinar will include:
- Protections from eviction;
- Right to receive visitors at any time;
- Access to food at any time;
- Right to privacy, including a lockable door;
- Access to the local community; and
- Facility's obligation to accept Medicaid from formerly private-pay residents.
Who Should Participate: Aging and disability advocates and aging network professiona
Presenters: Eric Carlson, Director, Long-Term Services and Supports Advocacy and Gelila Selassie, Senior Attorney
If you would like to request ASL interpretation or have other accessibility related questions, please email info@justiceinaging.org.
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