(C) Wisconsin Watch This story was originally published by Wisconsin Watch and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Help Wisconsin Watch report on long-term care in the state [1] ['Addie Costello', 'Wisconsin Watch', 'More Addie Costello', 'Investigative Reporter', 'Wpr', '.Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus-Coauthors.Is-Layout-Flow', 'Class', 'Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus', 'Display Inline', '.Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus-Avatar'] Date: 2024-05-01 18:30:02+00:00 Reading Time: < 1 minute Before I joined WPR and Wisconsin Watch, the newsroom received a tip about the displacement of Medicaid recipients from a local assisted living facility. My first assignment was to give the tipster a call. Dale Huhnke answered the phone and took time to share what it was like to navigate the state’s long-term care system for his mother. He detailed the process of learning her assisted living facility stopped accepting Medicaid and finding her new care. Later, he sat with me in his kitchen and spent well over an hour answering even more of my questions. My favorite stories to report come from tips, like Huhnke’s. When someone takes time to write to our newsroom, answer my questions over the phone and even invite me into their home, it’s easy to see why an issue matters to Wisconsin residents. Since the story was published, I’ve received multiple emails and phone calls from people, like Huhnke, who have issues with the state’s long-term care systems. It’s clear there are more stories to tell. So, I’m continuing my reporting on Medicaid and long-term care. If you or a loved one receives care through the state’s Family Care or IRIS programs, please reach out at acostello@wisconsinwatch.org. And if you have any other stories you want to share, send our newsroom a tip. Wisconsin Watch is a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom. Subscribe to our newsletters for original stories and our Friday news roundup. Republish This Story Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Close window X Republish this article This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Scroll down to copy and paste the code of our article into your CMS. The codes for images, graphics and other embeddable elements may not transfer exactly as they appear on our site. *** Also, the code below will NOT copy the featured image on the page. You are welcome to download the main image as a separate element for publication with this story. *** You are welcome to republish our articles for free using the following ground rules. Credit should be given, in this format: “By Dee J. Hall, Wisconsin Watch” Editing material is prohibited, except to reflect relative changes in time, location and in-house style (for example, using “Waunakee, Wis.” instead of “Waunakee” or changing “yesterday” to “last week”) Other than minor cosmetic and font changes, you may not change the structural appearance or visual format of a story. If published online, you must include the links and link to wisconsinwatch.org If you share the story on social media, please mention @wisconsinwatch (Twitter, Facebook and Instagram), and ensure that the original featured image associated with the story is visible on the social media post. Don’t sell the story or any part of it — it may not be marketed as a product. Don’t extract, store or resell Wisconsin Watch content as a database. Don’t sell ads against the story. But you can publish it with pre-sold ads. Your website must include a prominent way to contact you. Additional elements that are packaged with our story must be labeled. Users can republish our photos, illustrations, graphics and multimedia elements ONLY with stories with which they originally appeared. You may not separate multimedia elements for standalone use. If we send you a request to change or remove Wisconsin Watch content from your site, you must agree to do so immediately. *** Also, the code below will NOT copy the featured image on the page. You are welcome to download the main image as a separate element for publication with this story. *** You are welcome to republish our articles forusing the following ground rules. For questions regarding republishing rules please contact Jeff Bauer, digital editor and producer, at jbauer@wisconsinwatch.org Help us report on long-term care in Wisconsin

Help us report on long-term care in Wisconsin

by Addie Costello / Wisconsin Watch and WPR, Wisconsin Watch
May 1, 2024

Before I joined WPR and Wisconsin Watch, the newsroom received a tip about the displacement of Medicaid recipients from a local assisted living facility. My first assignment was to give the tipster a call.

Dale Huhnke answered the phone and took time to share what it was like to navigate the state’s long-term care system for his mother. He detailed the process of learning her assisted living facility stopped accepting Medicaid and finding her new care. Later, he sat with me in his kitchen and spent well over an hour answering even more of my questions.

My favorite stories to report come from tips, like Huhnke’s.

When someone takes time to write to our newsroom, answer my questions over the phone and even invite me into their home, it's easy to see why an issue matters to Wisconsin residents.

Since the story was published, I’ve received multiple emails and phone calls from people, like Huhnke, who have issues with the state’s long-term care systems. It’s clear there are more stories to tell. So, I’m continuing my reporting on Medicaid and long-term care.

If you or a loved one receives care through the state’s Family Care or IRIS programs, please reach out at acostello@wisconsinwatch.org. And if you have any other stories you want to share, send our newsroom a tip.

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