Why six residents of assisted-living centers will be evicted -- Port Angeles Port Townsend Sequim Forks Jefferson County Clallam County Olympic Peninsula Daily NEWS
By June's end, Prairie Springs in Sequim and Laurel Park in Port Angeles will have evicted six of their elderly residents because they are on Medicaid.
Lucile Cole, who'll turn 99 on June 13, and Edith Bateman, 93, are among the women and men who received a letter this spring from Assisted Living Concepts, the Wisconsin-based corporation that owns Prairie Springs and Laurel Park.
"The last day of Medicaid participation . . . will be June 30," the letter stated. "Thank you for the opportunity to be of service to you."
The evicted residents paid their way with Medicaid, the Social Security Act program designed to provide quality health care to low-income Americans. It is a joint federal-state program, with each state having its own plan.
Cole, at 98 one of the oldest Prairie Springs residents, moved in five years ago.
She spent much of her adult life moving around California and Oregon with her late husband, Duane, who worked in shipyards and construction.
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