{"id":18283,"date":"2021-06-09T09:12:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T13:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18283"},"modified":"2021-06-09T09:12:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T13:12:29","slug":"zooming-into-the-statehouse-nursing-home-residents-use-new-digital-skills-to-push-for-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18283","title":{"rendered":"Zooming Into the Statehouse: Nursing Home Residents Use New Digital Skills to Push for Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Susan Jaffe for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Patty Bausch isn\u2019t a Medicaid expert, lawyer or medical professional. But she still thinks Connecticut legislators need her input when they consider bills affecting people like her \u2014 the roughly 18,000 residents who live in the state\u2019s nursing homes.<\/p>\n<p>With help and encouragement from Connecticut\u2019s Long Term Care Ombudsman Program, Bausch signed up and testified remotely before a legislative hearing this year. Nursing home residents who have been using digital technology to reach out to family and friends \u2014 after the covid pandemic led officials to end visitation last year \u2014 could also use it to connect with elected officials once the legislature moved to remote hearings. Speaking into an iPad provided by the ombudsman\u2019s office, Bausch testified without ever leaving her room at the Newtown Rehabilitation &amp; Health Care Center, where she has lived since having a stroke three years ago.\u00a0 Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/zooming-into-the-statehouse-nursing-home-residents-use-new-digital-skills-to-push-for-changes\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Susan Jaffe for Kaiser Health News) Patty Bausch isn\u2019t a Medicaid expert, lawyer or medical professional. But she still<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicaid","category-nursing-homes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18284,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18283\/revisions\/18284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}