Home-care program also under fire
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Marin Independent Journal

by Richard Halstead

A program that provides social workers and nurses to monitor the care of fragile Marin seniors who want to continue living in their homes would also be eliminated by proposed cuts in the state budget.

Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed budget would eliminate Medi-Cal funding for the Multi-Purpose Senior Services Program, which serves a caseload of 85 seniors in Marin. The nonprofit Jewish Family and Children’s Services has contracted with the Department of Aging to provide the program in Marin County for the past 12 years.

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Posted by Admin on January 23, 2011