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SANDY -- A cross-country grassroots effort to highlight the need for high-quality care for seniors made a stop in Utah Tuesday.
The national RV tour "Driving for Quality Care" hopes to urge President Barack Obama and members of Congress, as well as Utah lawmakers, to devote more funding to long-term care in nursing homes.
Members of the Utah Health Care Association joined the tour at the South Town Expo Center Tuesday to spread the word that as our population ages, the need for Medicaid funding is becoming more critical.
"While we're doing OK today, those demands are just getting greater and greater; and if we don't address it today, it's going to be too late by tomorrow," said Kirk Anjewierden, executive director of the Utah Health Care Association.
The American Health Care Association suggests that money come out of the $57 million in emergency Medicaid relief Utah will receive from the federal government.
