{"id":115,"date":"2013-02-06T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ephc.org\/news\/?p=115"},"modified":"2013-02-06T12:00:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T20:00:43","slug":"save-our-skilled-nursing-write-a-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/save-our-skilled-nursing-write-a-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Save Our Skilled Nursing! Write A Letter!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We need your help to save our skilled nursing facilities and stop devastating cuts to MediCal that will hurt our entire hospital and community.<br \/>\nDiana Dooley, CA Sec. of Health and Human Services and Toby Douglas, CA Dept. of Health Care Services are charged with implementing the cuts. Letters to them are URGENT, because they can begin implementation as soon as March\/April 2013.<br \/>\nSen. Ted Gaines and Assemblyman Brian Dahle can work with Democrats to propose legislation to stop the cuts.<br \/>\nThe best letters are personal\u2014tell them the 25% MediCal cuts to Eastern Plumas Health Care\u2019s hospital skilled nursing facilities will close facilities and leave residents homeless. Let them know that this might close the only hospital, clinic, and emergency services in our area. Tell them HOW THIS WILL AFFECT YOU!<\/p>\n<p>1. Diana Dooley<br \/>\nSecretary, Health and Human Services<br \/>\n1600 9th St # 460  Sacramento, CA 95814<br \/>\n(916) 654-3454<br \/>\nddooley@chhs.ca.gov<\/p>\n<p>2. Toby Douglas<br \/>\nDirector, Dept. of Health Care Services<br \/>\nP.O. Box 95889-7413<br \/>\nToby.Douglas@dhcs.ca.gov<\/p>\n<p>3. Sen. Ted Gaines<br \/>\nState Capitol, Room 3070<br \/>\nSacramento, CA 95814<\/p>\n<p>4. Assemblyman Brian Dahle<br \/>\nState Capitol, room 2174<br \/>\nSacramento, CA 94249<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need your help to save our skilled nursing facilities and stop devastating cuts to MediCal that will hurt our entire hospital and community. Diana Dooley, CA Sec. of Health and Human Services and Toby Douglas, CA Dept. of Health Care Services are charged with implementing the cuts. Letters to them are URGENT, because they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}