http://projects.newsobserver.com/blogs/personal_care_and_smoking Comments for "Personal care and smoking" en http://projects.newsobserver.com/blogs/personal_care_and_smoking <!-- Begin check for Blog Icon --> <img src="/sites/projects.newsobserver.com/files/morningroundup_100.jpg" class="blog-icon" /> <!-- End check for Blog Icon --> <!-- Begin check for Teaser Toggle --> <div class="field-item"><p>Personal care is a growing state expense, and is expected to cost Medicaid more than $315 million in the next budget year, <a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/news/health_science/story/642079.html">reports</a> Thomas Goldsmith. </p><p>The cost for personal care, services delivered to the elderly or disabled in their homes, is likely to surpass the tab for assisted-living centers and group homes in the next budget. </p><p>Meanwhile, legislators are moving forward with a <a href="http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&amp;BillID=H1294">proposal</a> to ban smoking in adult-care homes, the W-SJ <a href="http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ/MGArticle/WSJ_BasicArticle&amp;c=MGArticle&amp;cid=1173352054013">reports</a>. </p><p>The proposed ban was suggested after a fatal fire in a Mocksville home that resulted from a resident smoking near an oxygen tank.</p></div> <div class="node-blog-teaser-footer"> <div class="node-blog-teaser-comments"><a href="http://projects.newsobserver.com/blogs/personal_care_and_smoking#comment"><img src="http://www.newsobserver.com/images/front_new/icon_discussion.gif" width="11" height="7" border="0" /> Comments (0)</a> <!-- If permissions, display edit link at end of teaser --> <!-- End edit link code --> </div> </div> <!-- End check for Teaser Toggle --> <!-- BEGIN AUDIO ATTACHMENT CODE --> http://projects.newsobserver.com/blogs/personal_care_and_smoking#comment budget Medicaid smoking Under the Dome Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:28:06 -0400 lynnbonner 1466 at http://projects.newsobserver.com