Immigrants including Nora Ketter, who's been stuck at UMass Memorial's Clinton Hospital for more than three years, will now qualify for long-term care in skilled nursing facilities and other settings under a policy change enacted in November:
On Nov. 3, Nora Ketter was released from UMass Memorial's HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital, where she spent more than three years. She was transferred to a skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility in Leominster, according to attorney Andrew Cohen of Health Law Advocates, who's worked on her case. Due to the recent change in MassHealth policy explained in this story, Ketter became eligible for long-term care coverage on Nov. 1.
"It means everything to me that she's going to be in a place where she can get therapy, where she can do exercise or things that she should have been doing," Dennis said."Because it's not only for my sister that I'm thinking about. It's for all the other people in that same situation as she is in." "I literally became emotionally overwhelmed," Cohen said."I started to cry for joy because it is such an important policy change when it comes to the lives of people like Ms. Ketter. This really is going to mean so much in terms of allowing her to be able to get care the care that she needs in the right setting."
The state's Executive Office of Health and Human Services, which oversees MassHealth, did not answer questions about how much the policy change will cost or how the state will pay for it. Approximately 120,000 people are in the plan that the new guidelines will cover — MassHealth Family Assistance — the agency said. About 10,000 of them are immigrants, according to a spokeswoman.
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