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The swelling ranks of the “working '* ■ poor” who cannot meet eligibility ■ requirements for welfare programs but do/ ? qualify for the Community Services’ homemaker/home health aide help. Until recently, this program had a relatively lowv demand, but under the Reagan ad- V* ministration’s new regulations, Medicare Medicaid no longer pay for hospital and V* nursing home stays on the basis of what an* • individual patient needs but rather on average requirements or DRGs, Mrs. «fjy Gorman explained. “The doctor diagnoses’ll)) replacement. That’s ‘X’ number of days irrflhe hospital, regardless. People are being seijK-/ home prematurely, and our agency is beinjj£,v asked to help. The result is we have a long*C waiting list for homemaker/home health
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With the waves of new patients V.H threatening to swamp the boat and the federal cuts springing ever bigger leaks, the* state has thrown away the life raft it once *%' held out to community service boards. Front 1976 through 1981, the Department of *.» Mental Health gave local agencies an annual' “maintenance” increase of 10 percent, Mrs',’.
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