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March 10, 2025
Monday, March 10, 2025, 1:00 to 2:45 p.m.
In Person: Room 428, State House, Boston
Attend PNA Briefing virtually
Meeting ID: 216 673 363 015 Passcode: m3Pp9Sx3
Academic experts and sponsors will be sharing the importance of these bills which seek to increase the monthly amount withheld from a nursing home resident's income to be used for personal needs not covered by the nursing home or rest home where they reside. Bills SD2385, SD401, and HD830.
Welcome – Paul J. Lanzikos, Dignity Alliance Coordinator, former Secretary of Elder Affairs
Statement of the Issue
- Monica S. Aswani, DrPH, Department of Health Services Administration, School of Health Professions, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Paul R. Shafer, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Health Law, Policy, and Management and co-director of the Boston University Medicaid Policy Lab.
Lived Experience
- Jill Gemelli, Adminstrator, Hale House, Boston
- Elizabeth Leabitt, President, Hale House Residents’ Council
- Hale House residents
Nursing Home Response
- Kathy E. Gallin, Vice President Legislative Affairs and Health Policy, Signature HealthCARE Consulting (video)
Legislative Sponsors
- Introductions by Richard T. Moore, Dignity Alliance Legislative Chair, Former Senate President Pro Tempore
- Representative Thomas Stanley, House Chair, Elder Affairs (HD401)
- Senator Joan Lovely, Assistant Senate Majority Leader (SD2385)
- Senator Patricia Jehlen, Senate Chair, Elder Affairs (SD 401)
- Senator Mark Montigny, Senate Chair, Post Audit (SD401)
For more information contact former State Senator Richard Moore, Chair, DignityMA Legislative Workgroup, rmoore8743@charter.net.
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