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Texas Health Care Association

The mission of the Texas Health Care Association is to unite, represent, and support professionals who strive to improve the delivery, quality, and integrity of long term healthcare services.

The objectives of this association shall be:

1. to continually refine and develop membership services that meet the needs of both state and national Association members;

2. to build consumer alliances and regulatory partnerships;

3. to advocate for appropriate funding for resident well-being;

4. to advocate for a fair enforcement and litigation environment in which providers can meet the needs of their residents;

5. to provide education about the long term care profession;

6. to develop and participate in efforts to improve and measure the quality of long term healthcare services.

Frontline ’09 is an advocacy program developed by the Texas Health Care Association (THCA) to inform communities and elected officials about important long term care issues facing our great state and the nation. Building on the momentum established by a similar initiative last year – Educate ’08 – the program provides a unique opportunity for nursing home administrators, residents, families, and caregivers to share with elected officials their front-line perspective of the impact of federal and state legislative decisions on long term care.

As part of Frontline ’09, THCA is working with its members, and other organizations in Texas focused on high quality health care and adequate funding. Concerned citizens can directly contact elected officials to educate them on the types of specialized health care services Texas’ nursing homes provide, and the need to support quality long term care in our state through appropriate Medicaid funding.

THCA has developed a variety of tools sharing information about Texas’ long term care and the need to enhance support for it in 2009. These include a presentation about the need to adequately fund nursing home care, recent advertisements and fact sheets from THCA explaining more about this issue.