Health Care Providers share struggles with Rep. Zeleznikar
DULUTH, Minn. — Representative Natalie Zeleznikar visited Duluth to meet with local health care providers about challenges they are faces.
The series of listening sessions were held at Ecumen Lakeshore.
Representative Zeleznikar met with representatives from disability providers to home care, to assisted living and nursing home care.
They discussed the complexities of meeting the needs of their clients, finding solutions, and recognizing issues the health care system is facing, like funding.
“I’ve spent a day in the schools. I visited child care centers and family child care and getting to the place where people provide service is important, and people that provide health care can’t leave to come to the Capitol, you don’t see people coming to the Capitol that are nursing assistants and running from home care and disabilities and non-emergency transportation, or assisted livings, any of those settings, because they’re delivering care back in our community.” said Rep. Natalie Zeleznikar, (R) MN District 3B.
Representative Zeleznikar said one way to help solve problems is by increasing audits of in-home care providers to help prevent wasteful fraud.
“We must find a way to decipher between legitimate providers and those who bill fraudulently in service areas that are delivered outside of licensed settings, and this includes on site visits with sample audits to confirm clients received services. We don’t want great providers painted with the same paintbrush as those who steal resources from vulnerable adults and tax payers,” Zeleznikar told FOX 21.
