Opinion Piece Warns Against Adult Day Health Care Cuts
Gov. Jerry Brown's (D) budget proposal to eliminate funding for adult day health care centers would be "disastrous" because the program "prevents unnecessary hospitalization, ... retards the migration to more costly nursing facility placement [and] helps free up the ever-congested mental health system," Gene Lizaso -- assistant administrator for Tender Heart Adult Day Health Care -- writes in a San Bernardino County Sun opinion piece. Lizaso adds that closing adult day health care facilities would "force the state to forfeit nearly $164 million a year received from federal matching funds."
- "Adult Day Health Care Cuts Costs Elsewhere in Medical Treatment" (San Bernardino County Sun, 1/23).