The MBA approved draft Report findings, conclusions and recommendations at their December 4, 2009 board meeting.  MBA produced an outline summary of the approved findings, conclusions and recommendations for public review and comment.

Although the national health care reform bills, including the one passed by the House of Representatives on November 7 (HR 3962), is not focused on long-term care issues, it does include expanding efforts to bundle post-hospital care into hospital DRGs, increasing transparency of nursing home reporting, testing of a model of medical home visiting, developing a task force on personal care attendant workforce issues, creating a government sponsored national disability insurance program and increasing spending on caregiver support.