DOH Announces Senior Supportive Housing Services Projects Awards
New York State Department of Health (DOH) yesterday issued the Senior Supportive Housing Services Projects awards that are intended to serve low-income, Medicaid-eligible seniors who reside in the community and who are at risk of nursing home placement or are homeless, or seniors who are transitioning out of nursing homes into community living and require long term care services.
For purposes of this program, a senior supportive housing services project is defined as the pairing of capital assistance and supportive services within existing senior housing communities.
The senior supportive housing services concept stems from the Medicaid Redesign Team (MRT) Affordable Housing Work Group. LeadingAge NY serves on this work group and has persistently advocated to ensure that funds are made available to support low-income seniors. We have argued that investments in affordable senior housing will help save Medicaid dollars by preventing or delaying nursing home placement and reducing the utilization of Medicaid-covered services.
The Senior Supportive Housing Services Projects awardees and funding amounts are:
|
Organization |
Project Name |
Award Amount |
|
Goddard Riverside Community Center
|
Goddard Riverside Senior Supportive Housing Program |
$500,000 |
|
Westchester Independent Living
|
Senior Supportive Housing Pilot Project |
$500,000
|
|
Family Services Society of Yonkers |
Westchester Senior Supportive Services Program
|
$500,000
|
|
Ithaca Housing Authority |
Expanding On-site Health Care and Improving Accessibility: Optimal Affordable Low Income Senior Housing at the Ithaca Housing Authority’s Titus Towers
|
$500,000
|
|
Rural Ulster Preserve (RUPCO)
|
RUPCO Nursing Home to Independent Living |
$496,224 |
|
Promesa Systems |
South Bronx Senior Supportive Housing Services Program |
$500,000 |
|
Catholic Charities
|
Senior Supportive Housing Services |
$500,000 |
|
United Helpers
|
Services within Senior Housing |
$484,861 |
|
Project Renewal
|
Tools for Aging in Place (TAP) |
$491,567 |
LeadingAge NY will track the progress of these programs and will continue to advocate for additional senior supportive housing funding through the MRT.
Contact: Ken Harris, kharris@leadingageny.org, 518-867-8383, ext. 139; Diane Darbyshire, ddarbyshire@leadingageny.org, 518-867-8828