The email went to more than 30 nursing-home administrators, advocates for older people and others with a stake in the welfare of long-term care residents. “Pls encourage grant proposals,” read the subject line of the recent email from Becky Wertz, section chief at the Division of Health Service Regulation, Nursing Home Licensure & Certification Section in the state’s Department of Health and Human Services. The money went mostly to a handful of smaller-scale “culture change” projects designed to improve residents’ lives at individual nursing homes. But during the past three years, only $406,057 - about 1.4 percent of the current stash - was spent. The growing millions in the fund are supposed to be spent on programs to ensure better lives for the people who live in the state’s 429 nursing homes. The money - including $13 million during the past three fiscal years - has accrued from fines as large as $1.16 million levied by federal regulators against individual North Carolina nursing homes. In plain language, that email referred to nearly $29 million in a state-federal fund that is sitting mostly unused. “The NC Division of Health Service Regulation reports a balance of $28,952,697.63 in the CMS fines/penalties fund for the quarter ending December 31, 2018.” could learn from them.Īn email from a state official delivered startling news during the first week of January: Lessons from Abroad: How Europeans have tackled opioid addiction and what the U.S.Storm stories – NC Health News works with teens from SE North Carolina to tell their hurricane experiences.Unequal Treatment: Mental health parity in North Carolina.When kids’ cries for help become crimes.COVID-19 updates: What’s happening in North Carolina?.Millions in fund, earmarked to improve nursing home care, sits mostly unused - North Carolina Health News Close
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