Personal care worker Andrew Wolfram helps Karen Foxgrover, who has a muscle weakening disease, eat lunch at her Downtown Madison apartment in 2021. Foxgrover said she has been staying at UW Health's East Madison Hospital since early this year because her Medicaid agencies could no longer find proper caregivers for her at home.
AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL ARCHIVESWhen Kelli Simpkins and her husband Todd LaRosa moved to Madison a dozen years ago, they had no trouble finding people to help care for their son, Mickey, who has epilepsy.
Kelli Simpkins and her husband, Todd LaRosa, with their son, Mickey, 20, who has epilepsy. Simpkins said they can rarely find caregivers at the $15.75 hourly rate permitted through the state Medicaid program Mickey is in.
SIMPKINS FAMILY
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Personal care worker Andrew Wolfram helps Karen Foxgrover, who has a muscle weakening disease, eat lunch at her Downtown Madison apartment in 2021. Foxgrover said she has been staying at UW Health's East Madison Hospital since early this year because her Medicaid agencies could no longer find proper caregivers for her at home.
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