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Subject Central Iowa nursing homes shut their doors to ventilator patients

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For the past two years, she lived at Fleur Heights Care Center, the last central Iowa nursing home that took patients on ventilators. But Fleur Heights decided recently to phase out the service. And after De La Cruz was hospitalized last month, the nursing said she could not return there.

Her husband, Rick De La Cruz, doesn’t want to see his wife move to another nursing home halfway across the state. “She’s everything to me. She’s the joy of my life,” he said. He would face the choice of quitting his truck-driving job in Des Moines and moving — or of keeping his job but being able to visit her only one or two days a week instead of every day.

The Fleur Heights nursing home blames insufficient and untimely payments from Iowa’s Medicaid program, which covers most disabled Iowans who use long-term ventilators. Just six of Iowa’s 417 nursing homes remain listed as places that accept such patients. All of those facilities are at least an hour-and-a-half drive away from Des Moines.

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