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Nursing facilities provide long-term services and supports (LTSS), as well as short-term rehabilitation and postacute care following hospitalizations to people of all ages. Although younger p

Residential care settings is an umbrella term that refers to many types of certified and licensed housing plus services options.

Ensuring the quality of services for home careA range of services provided in the home, includin

In 2019, an estimated 51.5 million adults age 18 and older in the U.S. had a mental illness. That is 20.6 percent of all adults.

The care provided in long-term services and supports (LTSS) settings is only as good as the personnel who provide it.

In 1999, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Olmstead vs. L.C.

Medicaid is the single largest public funding source for long-term services and supports (LTSS). It is a combined federal-state program.

Federal law and regulations specify the general eligibility and coverage requirements for mandatory and optional Medicaid long-term services and supports (LTSS).

The major source of public financing for long-term services and supports (LTSS) is the joint federal and state Medicaid program.

Providers of long-term services and supports (LTSS) cannot ensure high-quality services without sufficient funding.