Tony Orlando helps Medicaid reform supporters celebrate recent legislative success

Posted August 4th, 2008

From left to right, back row: Southbury resident Joe Stango, Bob Veillette’s sons Dr. Greg Veillette and Mark Veillette, Naugatuck resident Bonnie Veillette and entertainer Tony Orlando. Front row, left to right: Naugatuck resident Bob Veillette and his daughter Stephanie DeLuca of Terryville.

Tony Orlando, the entertainer who immortalized the yellow ribbon as a symbol of homecoming, gave an hour-long concert at Mohegan Sun Aug. 2 to help more than 300 Medicaid reform supporters celebrate the success of their recent efforts to expand home-care choices in Connecticut’s Medicaid program.

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Medicaid reform bill gains 10,000 signatures of support, 15 legislative co-sponsors

Posted March 25th, 2008

WATERBURY, Conn. (March 25, 2008) — The Medicaid reform bill pending in the Legislature has received letters with more than 10,000 signatures of support and gained 15 legislative co-sponsors.

The bill (SB No. 561) would increase the number of patients transitioned from institutional care to the new home-care program Money Follows the Person (MFP) and invest in the future of health care by creating jobs that will ensure enough skilled workers available to support a fundamental shift to greater consumer choice in Connecticut’s Medicaid system.

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Proposed bill would expand Money Follows the Person, add skilled workers to support more home care

Posted February 14th, 2008

WATERBURY, Conn. (Feb. 14, 2008) — Medicaid reform activist Joe Stango today proposed legislation that would expand the new home-care program he helped create and ensure there will be enough skilled workers available to support a fundamental shift to greater consumer choice in Connecticut’s Medicaid system.

There are four parts to Stango’s proposed bill, which state Sen. Jonathan A. Harris (D-West Hartford), chairman of the Health Services Committee, has agreed to raise for consideration:

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Effort to get nursing home choice begins

Posted October 10th, 2007

RepublicanAmerican

October 10, 2007

Medicare would pay for home care

BY CARRIE MACMILLAN 
She squeezed her daughter’s hand and said, “Get me out of here.”Jean Scollay, 85, has Parkinson’s disease and has been in a nursing home in Naugatuck for a year and a half. Her daughters, Pat Scollay and Bobbi Cappello, want to bring her home.
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Connecticut receives a $24.2 million federal grant to implement Money Follows the Person, for 700 Connecticut residents over the next five years.

Posted January 11th, 2007

In 2005 Joseph Stango, a Southbury, Connecticut resident, attempted to bring his 83-year-old mother, Dora, home from a skilled nursing facility. Stango learned, however, that because his mother’s care was paid by Medicaid, the government health insurance for lowincome elderly and disabled persons, Dora Stango’s benefits would not follow her home. Unable to afford the cost of caring for his mother at home, Stango was forced to leave her in the nursing facility. Thus began a quest by Stango to bring “Medicaid Choice” to Connecticut.

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Governor Rell Announces $24.2 Million Federal Grant to Help Connecticut Residents Move from Nursing Homes

Posted January 10th, 2007

Governor M. Jodi Rell today announced that Connecticut is receiving a $24.2 million federal grant to pioneer new ways of helping people move from nursing facilities and other institutions to life at home with family and friends. The initiative has become known in Connecticut as Money Follows the Person.

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