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REACH outlines plan for 20-unit blended medical-respite and supportive housing at former shelter
Summary
REACH Medical proposed converting 618 West State St. into a 20-unit facility combining 10 long-term supportive units and 10 medical-respite beds, saying the model cuts inpatient days by about 40% and can leverage managed Medicaid reimbursements and state grants to sustain operations.
Samantha Stevenson, director of operations at REACH Medical, told the Tompkins County Health & Human Services Committee on March 12 that REACH plans to convert the former shelter at 618 West State St. into a blended supportive-housing and medical-respite facility that would house both permanent supportive tenants and short-term medical-respite patients.
Stevenson said REACH serves roughly 10,000 unique patients across 56 New York counties, with about 2,000 patients remaining in care locally. "Medical respite guarantees that people being released from the hospital will have a dignified place to recover," she said, adding that peer-reviewed implementations of the model show a roughly 40% reduction in inpatient days…
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