Health advocates believe the nearly 400 nursing homes in the state are in crisis, because of a shortage of workers and the low Medicaid reimbursement rate.
Each county has to run its own facility, and Winnebago County Executive Mark Harris agrees with them.
The county’s Park View Health Center is in Oshkosh, and Harris says taxpayers subsidize the facility will $1.9 million in county funding a year.
The administrator at Outagamie County’s Brewster Village in Grand Chute says their taxpayer subsidy is more than $4 million a year. Morgan Hinkley believes the state needs to address where and how people receive, and pay for, their care.
