CPSC Holds Petition-Signing Events to Oppose Medicare Cuts to Seniors’ Nursing Home Care

Coalition to Protect Senior Care (CPSC) lead spokesperson Lisa Cantrell has been traveling across the country to participate in petition-signing press events at skilled nursing facilities out of concern regarding potential Medicare funding cuts to seniors’ nursing home care.

Combined with the impact of a recently-enacted Medicare regulation cutting Medicare-funded nursing home care by $12 billion over ten years, proposed cuts of $44 billion over ten years in the U.S. House health care reform bill will endanger seniors’ care needs as well as thousands of long term care jobs.

At the facilities, front-line caregivers and staff, residents and family members signed a petition to their state Congressional delegation asking them to reconsider and refrain from making these funding cuts in support of protecting senior and disabled residents receiving nursing home care.


A listing of the CPSC events with local news coverage is below.

Kennebunk Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
Kennebunk, ME: October 14, 2009

Van Dyk of Ridgewood Manor
Ridgewood, NJ: October 13, 2009

Riverstreet Manor
Wilkes Barre, PA: September 3, 2009
Residents Petition Against Any Medicare Cuts - Times Leader
Riverstreet Manor Rallies Against Medicare Cuts - The Citizen’s Voice

Shadyside Nursing & Rehabilitation
Pittsburgh, PA: September 2, 2009

Southlake Nursing & Rehabilitation
Jacksonville, FL: September 1, 2009
Proposed Medicare Cuts Have Nursing Homes Worried - Florida Times-Union

Rio Rancho Care & Rehabilitation Center
Albuquerque, NM: August 14, 2009
Coalition: Don’t Cut Medicare - Albuquerque Journal