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One of the goals of the RWJF grant is to highlight the development
of one or more affordable RCAC (apartment-style assisted living)
demonstrations in a rural or small community. Wisconsin’s
plan is to feature at least one demonstration each year of
the grant. The purpose is to show how existing resources can
be used to create an affordable RCAC.
The benefits
and expectations
for the demonstrations have been defined by the Demonstration
Work Group.
WHAT WE WANT TO LEARN
The
ideas that will be captured and what might learned from
One Penny Place, Woodruff, and Avanti Health Care, Ashland,
Hurley and Superior, were generated at the Work Group’s first
meeting on July 24, 2001.
2006 DEMONSTRATIONS
Profiles of the 2006 participating RCACs are:
2001 DEMONSTRATIONS
Profiles of the 2001 participating RCACs are:
Additional information on them will be added over time to
show how they are operating.
They are similar in several ways:
- Location: Small, northern,
rural communities.
- Experience: Significant background
in providing health care and operating rental housing
- Synergy: Part of a campus-style
setting (nursing home, home health agency, independent low-income
elderly apartments, and/or hospital)
- Design: Regular apartment-size
units averaging over 700 square feet for a one-bedroom apartment
- Equity Financing: Use
of the Wisconsin Affordable Housing Tax credits (Sec. 42)
with RCACs.
- Operations: The plan to use
the Medicaid Card service if a resident cannot access the
Medicaid Waiver in the county:
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