The Atlanta Regional Commission, with funding from President Obama’s health care law, helps Cobb seniors released from a hospital quickly recover.
The problem is that twenty percent of Medicare patients who are discharged for the hospital end up back within 30 days. Cobb’s senior services department will get $12,037 from the health care program the Tea Party wants to shut down. Nine other Georgia Counties will also receive funding to help our seniors.
The Care Transitions Program is fully funded under the Affordable Care Act. The ARC gets money that is passed down from the federal government to the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare. It then reimburses partnered counties for expenses. WellStar Health System has partnered with the county to recommend at-risk patients for the program.
