Frontline ’09 is an advocacy program developed by the Texas Health Care Association (THCA) to inform communities and elected officials about important long term care issues facing our great state and the nation.  Building on the momentum established by a similar initiative last year – Educate ’08 – the program provides a unique opportunity for nursing home administrators, residents, families, and caregivers to share with elected officials their front-line perspective of the impact of federal and state legislative decisions on long term care.

As part of Frontline ’09, THCA is working with its members, and other organizations in Texas focused on high quality health care and adequate funding.  Concerned citizens can directly contact elected officials to educate them on the types of specialized health care services Texas’ nursing homes provide, and the need to support quality long term care in our state through appropriate Medicaid funding.

THCA has developed a variety of tools sharing information about Texas’ long term care and the need to enhance support for it in 2009.  These include a presentation about the need to adequately fund nursing home care, recent advertisements and fact sheets from THCA explaining more about this issue.

Click here to download the PowerPoint Presentation on the Need to Adequately Fund Texas Nursing Home Care (click SAVE when the window pops up and save to a known location on your computer.  When opening the presentation a dialogue box will pop up asking for a password.  Please click the "READ ONLY" button.)

Click here to view fact sheets and recent advertisements on this issue from THCA