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Dr. Otis Bowen reflects on his service with HHS. (Health and Human Services)
The aging of the baby-boomers is at hand, wamed Otis R. Bowen, M.D., Secretary of Health & Human Services, in a recent interview with Nursing Homes Publisher John Kusik, and Government Editor R. Bruce Gebhardt. Besides the statistically obvious need for more nursing home beds, Secretary Bowen seeks better integration of home care- -including family involvement- -with nursing home care.
He called on the nursing home industry to develop and encourage consumer education, "to teach one to prepare for his long-teffn care needs."
Besides stressing what individuals, families, and the industry could do, Dr. Bowen called for better ways to finance long-term care.
Fiscal urgency
"About 48 percent of nursing home costs are paid by . . . government; and, in 1987 dollars, that's approximately $19 billion per year. By the year 2020, it's expected to be about $100 billion,
- Dissenting experts criticize Secretary Bowen panel. (Secretary of Health and...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 2, 1988 700+ words
...C E / DISSENTING EXPERTS CRITICIZE SECRETARY BOWEN PANEL WHO: -- James Dobson, founder...1987, with a specific charge by Secretary Bowen to "help teens gain the courage and...that the panel is decidely ignoring Secretary Bowen's mandate, instead pursuing a course...
- Secretary Bowen Should Have Spoken Earlier
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post October 22, 1988 700+ words
...of the program. Congress also has fully funded the president's request for treatment grants to the states in FY 1989. Secretary Bowen is essentially accurate that at present about one in five dollars spent for treatment is federal money. Yet we have a nationwide...
- World's AIDS Toll May Reach Tens of Millions;HHS Secretary Bowen Urges...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post January 30, 1987 700+ words
Health and Human Services Secretary Otis R. Bowen said yesterday that "unless progress is made," a worldwide AIDS epidemic will dwarf such earlier medical disasters as the Black Plague, smallpox and typhoid. "You haven't heard or read anything yet," Bowen said at the National Press Club. "If we
- Nursing homes' latest hurdle: insurance rates.
- Magazine article from: Crain's Cleveland Business SANTIAGO, RAQUEL May 8, 2000 700+ words
Local nursing homes contending with the challenges of...Alliance, a network of 25 nonprofit nursing homes in northern Ohio. "They're experiencing...simply are not renewing coverage for nursing homes. Lawsuits against nursing homes...
- Nursing homes meet managed care: an "outsider's" view. (interview with SEMCO...
- Magazine article from: Nursing Homes Peck, Richard L. August 1, 1998 700+ words
...certainly of appropriate concern to nursing homes, as healthcare's newcomers to the...considered, much less signed, what must nursing homes do to break the ice with these unfamiliar...explained in a recent interview with Nursing Homes/Long Term Care Management Editor...
- Nursing homes facing change; A report today will recommend revamping rules that...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Wolfe, Warren February 1, 2000 700+ words
Without state help, some nursing homes may follow the dinosaurs into...good results and helping some nursing homes shrink, change roles or shut...to help consumers choose good nursing homes, officials said. "The market...
- Nursing homes face cut in funds Group fights Weld plan on Medicaid
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Charles Stein, Globe staff November 18, 1995 700+ words
Massachusetts' nursing homes don't have to wait for the Republican...it first. The trade group for nursing homes yesterday filed a bill in the Legislature...roughly half the state's 550 nursing homes would get less money next year...
- NURSING HOMES IN CRISIS AFTER PAYMENT-PLAN SHIFT.(FRONT)
- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot Simpson, Elizabeth February 13, 2000 700+ words
Nursing homes throughout Hampton Roads are facing...the least amount of care, leaving nursing homes to deal with the tougher cases. In...which means more people are using nursing homes as a stopgap measure. ``Ten years...
