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Nursing Homes

Pre-Plan to Combat Rising Costs of Long-Term Care

June 15, 2009
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One of the greatest challenges many of my clients face is how to protect their families from the rising cost of long term care – both for themselves when they reach retirement and for elderly parents. For example, the average cost of staying in a Florida nursing home is between $5,000 to $6,500 per month, [...]

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Feds Rate Nursing Homes Online

June 3, 2009
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This is an idea that should have been brought to fruition a long time ago. The federal government has a tool consumers can use to evaluate nursing homes: medicare.gov/NHCompare According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS,  started ranking facilities in December based on government [...]

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