California Healthline, Capitol Desk
August 10, 2011

Jill Yungling was trying to hold in her exasperation yesterday, but it just kept spilling over.

“It is appalling to me how they can sit up there and say all of these things, and it’s all so full of holes,” Yungling said, “and we’re just supposed to sit down here and believe them.”

Yungling came from Carmichael to attend yesterday’s adult day health care stakeholder meeting in Sacramento. The California Department of Health Care Services convened the session to discuss the elimination of ADHC as a Medi-Cal benefit, a move that is likely to shutter most of the 300 ADHC centers across the state.

Yungling runs one of those ADHC centers. Her question was the same as almost everyone’s at the meeting: What will happen to the roughly 35,000 senior and disabled Californians who count on ADHC services to keep them out of nursing homes and emergency rooms?    Read Full Article