For more than 100,000 Ohio Medicaid recipients, worries build about the future of home care

By: Marty Schladen

Outlets: Ohio Capital Journal

Published: August 6, 2026

Words: 1,060

Last Updated: 1 week, 6 days ago

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DAYTON — Few nonresidents of nursing homes know more about what they’re like than Dorothy Valentine. For decades, she worked in them, caring for “her” residents.

Despite the hard work, weird hours, and low pay, it was her favorite job, she said.

“I loved my residents,” Valentine said. “I always spoiled them. I almost got fired for spoiling my residents. I love people.”

Valentine, 80, spoke last week surrounded by medicines and medical devices in …

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