State settlement spares adult day health care

State settlement spares adult day health care Low-income Californians with disabilities and serious illness will continue receiving services to keep them out of nursing homes after state officials Thursday settled a lawsuit challenging the elimination of the Adult Day Health Care program. 

"We are overjoyed about this," said Holly Hagler, chief executive of Community Senior Serv, which runs two adult day centers in Santa Ana and Anaheim. "This is going to be a huge benefit to older adults who have no other means of replicating the services." The program, which serves 35,000 disabled and medically fragile Californians, including 1,700 in Orange County, was scheduled to end Dec. 1 as a casualty of state budget cuts to Medi-Cal.

The settlement between the Department of Health Care Services and the nonprofit Disability Rights California resolves a lawsuit claiming that cuts violated...Click here to read full article in OC Register.