Tim Rogers posted on April 22, 2010 15:19
Sadly, Governor Beverly Perdue and DHHS Secretary Lanier Cansler are proposing to restructure and cut home care to Medicaid Private Duty Nursing (PDN) patients who suffer from MS, Cerebral Palsy and many other crippling diseases, etc.
Medicaid PDN is a small, but critical program that serves some 400 of the sickest and frailest people in North Carolina. A good number of these patients are paralyzed, have tracheotomies, use ventilators and many are fed through feeding tubes. Many are infants and young children. They have no where else to go…but HOME.
Please take a moment to look at this video which tells the beautiful story of eleven of these patients.
I ask that you please forward this video to your family, co-workers, and friends to tell Governor Perdue and Secretary Cansler not to cut this vital home care. We are currently airing this video across North Carolinaon cable television. And we are sending it to legislators and members of the press. I thank you and these patients for helping make this possible.
Cordially,
Tim Rogers, CEO
Assoc. for Home & Hospice Care of North Carolina
