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Advocacy: A Mission-Critical Function

Advocacy: A Mission-Critical Function. Ron Barth President and CEO ron@panpha.org. Chandler Hall Newtown, PA March 27, 2006. PANPHA: An Overview. Not a ‘nursing home’ association; a ‘continuum’ association About 320 members throughout Pennsylvania Whole is more than sum of parts.

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Advocacy: A Mission-Critical Function

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  1. Advocacy: A Mission-Critical Function Ron Barth President and CEO ron@panpha.org Chandler Hall Newtown, PA March 27, 2006

  2. PANPHA: An Overview • Not a ‘nursing home’ association; a ‘continuum’ association • About 320 members throughout Pennsylvania • Whole is more than sum of parts

  3. Good To Great Our ‘Hedgehog’: Grassroots Advocacy To agressively advocate in order to create the future of senior services for Pennsylvania

  4. Advocacy? Us? • ‘Policy’ impacts your mission • Much of what goes on here every day is determined by laws and regulations • Policy gets made with or without you: If you don’t participate in making policy, who does that leave?

  5. Not Just for ‘Hired Help’ - Legislators much more responsive to their constituents than to ‘hired guns’

  6. ‘Inside’ and ‘Outside’ Game • Inside • PANPHA staff & contract lobbyist meetings with lawmakers and staff • Analysis and information to committees and legislative offices • Testimony before committees • Negotiating with policymakers and other lobbying interests • Capitol-based media activities • Outside (“grassroots”) • Local visits by constituents • Letter-writing campaigns • Coalition building • Local media activities (editorial boards, localized stories, letters to editor, etc)

  7. Two way street…. • The insiders need – and need to be able to demonstrate -- ‘back home,’ ‘outside’ political support • And your feedback helps us develop, adjust and modify strategy and tactics

  8. A Role for Everyone… Board Members • Community ‘movers and shakers’ • Letter writing • Phone calls • Meeting legislators/policymakers • Outreach to business groups, professional associations, Kiwanis/Rotary/Lions, churches

  9. A Role for Everyone… Staff • The whole package: Constituents, voters, experts • Can tell stories, anecdotes !!!! • Often have existing relationships • Letter writing, phones, meetings

  10. A Role for Everyone… Residents and families • Can be most powerful lobbyists • Stories, stories, stories !!!! • PANPHA and to some extent facility staff considered ‘special interests’: Residents and families are real people

  11. On Our Plate • Medical Assistance • Rates • Reimbursement • Survey Process • Personal Care Home Regs • ‘Study Commission’ • PANPHA ‘North Star’

  12. Medical Assistance • Rates • Reimbursement System

  13. Survey Process • - IDR • - Joint Surveyor/ProviderTraining

  14. Personal Care Home Regs • New Regulations went into effect Oct. 24, 2005. • PANPHA was only state Association to openly oppose the regulations. • Provider lawsuit successful in gaining temporary injunction of several provisions.

  15. LTC Study Commission • Identify Population in Need of Care Now through 2025 • Services they will need • AND . . .How we will pay for them

  16. PANPHA ‘North Star’ Vision

  17. Please Join The Team • You won’t be alone • PANPHA will provide issue briefs, ‘how to’s’ • Remember: Experts can be hired. Real people, with real stories, cannot

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