Iron County Record | 1976-04-08 | Page 18 | Unha Takes Stand on Nursing Homes

UNHA takes stand on Nursing Homes "The Utah Nursing Home Association is against using government programs of any kind to subsidize care in unlicensed sub-standard boarding boar-ding homes," UNHA Executive Director, Dennis N. McFall, said today. "UNHA does support the use of government money through Medicare, Medicaid, Federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI), state cash assistance, or any other programs to provide care in licensed, certified nursing nur-sing homes and residential facilities," he said. "This association, however, cannot emphasize too strongly the difference between long term care in nursing homes and the totally inadequate care being provided in thousands or broken down firetraps throughout the United States." Mr. McFall's statement was issued in response to a report by Senator Frank E. Moss (D-Utah) in which the Senator said it was a national scandal that states are transferring mental patients from state institutions to substandard sub-standard boarding homes. Among the Utah Nursing Home Association's main goals are the development of appropriate ap-propriate standards and the securing of adequate funding to care for desolate people, including in-cluding the mentally ill, who require some help. In Utah, the one-hundred plus member facilities provide quality care to nearly 5500 of the infirm elderly and the disabled and chronically ill of all ages.