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Committee weighs keeping ombudsman position and annualizing elder-care rate changes

House Human Services · February 24, 2026
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Summary

Members discussed whether to backfill one-time COVID-funded long-term care ombudsman staff and the need to annualize recent ERC/ACCS rate adjustments; options include Choices for Care funding and GC matching.

The committee reviewed several elder-care items, including a long-term care ombudsman position added with one-time COVID-era funds and rate adjustments for residential care providers.

Speaker 4 explained the ombudsman office had used one-time federal COVID…

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