Keith Hare and William Coleman meet with Del. Betsy Carr (D-Richmond).

What’s happening: The 2024 General Assembly session is scheduled to adjourn on Saturday, March 9 contingent on the House of Delegates and Senate finalizing their work on the budget.

• News reports indicate that the budget conferees will release the details on the budget compromise later today. We will relay any details as they become available.
• As the negotiators met over the last week, VHCA-VCAL members and staff met with all 12 of the budget conferees to emphasize the need for Medicaid Value-Based Program funding at the House funding levels.

VHCA-VCAL extends its thanks to the members who came to Richmond to meet legislators including:

• Mark Klyczek and Rebecca Boyd of Virginia Health Services, Inc.
• Ashley Jackson and Christine Sena-Breitberg of Saber Healthcare Group, LLC.
• William Coleman of The Virginia Home.
• Patrick O’Quinn and Dustin Jackson of American HealthCare, LLC.

Dustin Jackson and Patrick O’Quinn meet with Sen. Todd Pillion (R-Abingdon) (center).

Additional outreach: VCHA-VCAL is grateful for the efforts of the members with nursing homes in the budget conferees districts that made additional outreach to them. Those companies include:

• American HealthCare, LLC
• CCR
• CommuniCare Health Services
• Consulate Health Care
• Eastern Healthcare Gorup
• Friendship
• Hill Valley Healthcare, LLC
• Innovative Healthcare Management
• Kissito Healthcare
• LifeSpire of Virginia
• Marquis Health Consulting Services
• Medical Facilities of America
• Riverside Senior Living – LLH
• Saber Healthcare Group, LLC
• Sunrise Senior Living
• Trio Healthcare, LLC
• Vierra Falls Church Health & Rehabilitation
• Virginia Health Services, Inc.