Dow Rummel Village and the South Dakota Health Care Association needs your
help!

South DakotaÂ's elderly, disabled and those who care for them need and
deserve your support!
Please contact your Senator or Representative now!  Legislators will soon
vote to determine Medicaid Funding for Nursing Home Providers. 
Points to make with your Senator or Representative:

• Please urge your Senator or Representative to preserve Medicaid Funding
for Nursing Homes.
• South Dakota Nursing FacilitiesÂ' Medicaid reimbursement is already being
under funded by over $16 million annually.
• Medicare rates to Nursing Facilities were cut on October 1, 2009, and
those cuts continue.
• South Dakota Long Term Caregivers did not receive a Medicaid inflationary
increase this year, and the GovernorÂ's budget proposal does not include an
increase for next year. 
• Four South Dakota Nursing Facilities have closed. 
• South Dakota Nursing Homes employ approximately 7,432 individuals.  The
total direct and indirect economic impact resulting from those jobs is
estimated at $830.8 million. 
South DakotaÂ's elderly and disabled need your support NOW to maintain the
quality of health care they expect and deserve!

PLEASE GO TO THE WEBSITE OF THE SOUTH DAKOTA HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION, OUR
INDUSTRY ORGANIZATION AT www.sdhca.org now. 
Follow these steps:
• Click on Legislative at the top of the page.
• Then click Legislative Action Center.
• Then click on Take Action.   
• Enter your zip code and click Go.
• Next you will read the information pertaining to this Alert.
• You will see your Senator or Representative listed and a message already
set up for you to send. 
• If they do not have email, you will need to select the box to print the
message and fax it to your Senator or Representative at (605) 773-6806. 
You may edit this message if you wish or leave it as is.  If you need
assistance, please call Sarah Ewing at the SDCHA Office at 1-800-952-3052.