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How Medicare Works (This Is the third In a series of articles' by Clay Stone, social security field re presentative in Franklin County on how medicare works. The Information Is based . on "Your Medicare Handbook" the guide that was issued to all medicare bene ficiaries during June. You may want to clip and discuss this article, sq as to be fully In formed about medicare. The people in the social security offlce^re ready to answer any questions you may have) Extended care services after hospitalization - Sometimes a hospital patient Is not well enough to go home but no longer needs intensive hos pital care. Under medicare, if you have been hospitalized, your doctor can have you transferred to an Institution called an ."extended care fa cility," a specially qualified skilled nursing home or other facility which offers con tinuous nursing and related services. An extended care facility can FARM BUREAU LIFE INSURANCE Fir# CfopHoil Formowntri Auto Former'* Liability Blue Cross Hospital Plans I.. C. HASTY Louisburg, N C AL DaPORTER T 0 NELMS Youngsvill* Rt. 1, Costolio "BUTCH" GUPTON ? Hickory Rock be a qualified Institution hav- ' lng a transfer agreement with the participating hospital, or It can be a special wing or ward or convalescent section of the hospital Itself. A point to keep In mind Is that medi care covers extended care for an Illness, not long-term custodial care. Requirements for extended care service - if you have been hospitalized and your doctor transfers you to an extended care facility for continuous skilled nursing and other care, your hospital insurance will help pay for up to 100 days of extended care during each spell of illness. But only If The services are provided by an extended care facility par ticipating in the medicare pro gram; and You were In the hospital at ?least 3 days; and You are 'admitted to the ex-? tended care facility within 14 days after your discharge from the hospital What hospital Insurance covers in dollars and cents - For extended care services your hospital Insurance pays for all covered services for the first 20 days of this follow up care and all but $5 dally for the next 80 days In a spell of Illness. Note, however, that extended care Is not covered under medicare until Janu ary 1, 1967. What extended care Is covered - Room and board, In seml-prlvate room (2 to 4 beds in a room) Physical, occupational, 'or speech therapy. Nursing care Drugs, blologlcals, supplies, appliances, equipment ordi narily furnished to patients by the extended care facility. What extended care is not covered - Physicians' ser vices (medical insurance helps pay doctor bills). Services In a facility oper ated primarily for custodial care. Private duty nurses. Private room - except where the patient's condition re quires hlra to be Isolated. (You will be responsible for the difference between semi private and private room cost.) Personal comfort or con venience Items you request, such as telephone, radio or television in your room. The hospital and extended care facility - Summing up, for each spell of Illness you oould have up to 90 days of covered services in a hospi tal, be transferred l?> a par ticipating extended care fa cility, and receive extended covered services for an addi tional 100 days. After you have been out of the hospital and/or the extended care facility for 60 consecutive days, a new spell of Illness begins: COLORFUL? Matching slS ter outfits of cotton gingham checks feature fun ruffles. 'Wich in a different pastel shade Both the shorts set and the beach dress are stvled t>y Cinderella Know The Weather Can the stars be useful to you, in connection with the weather? Perhaps today the stars have lost some of their importance as guides and direction indi cators, what with radio dlrec tlon-finding, radar and the beams which are used for hpming and charting compass courses. In the old days, when sailors or hunters or explorers ran into foul weather, or fair, they could use the stars to give them a course away from th? undesirable elements. In bad weather, glimpses of the stars are few and far between, but, one glimpse is enough. You m ist know that there are ftlaAtin Wzll Qomparuj, WELL BORING - DEEP WELL DRILLING WARRENTON. N. C. "A Well A Day- The Martin IV ay' N. C. LICENCE NO. 2 MANLEY S. MARTIN DAY: 257-3651 NIGHT 237 3302 five constellations of stars in j our hemisphere which never sink below the horizon ? Big Dipper, Little Dipper, Draco, Cepheus and Cassiopeia. The lip of the cup of the Big Dip per aim lyi points to the North Star? also always visible. Ih fhls hemisphere weather moves west to east, and bad weather counter clockwise. A direction bearing from the stars can point the way to the J warmer south, away from the j center of a hurricane or storm, etc. And the stars, i unlike a compass, never fall. Youth Killed By Plane * Texarkana, Ark. - Jlmmle i Sims was killed- by a low flying, crop-dusting airplane. The fourteen year old boy was standing at the end of the row showing the pilot which rows to dust next when the wheel of the plane struck him In the back. When a man gets a few hundred miles from home, and his neighbors, how he can talk! It's rounduptime at the Dodge Boys! f? Ride with the Good Guys in the / white hats! / Coronet 500 2-door hardtop. Have you been waiting for months to get the best deal on a hot, big, beautiful new Dodge? Well, Mister, now's the time to act ? roundup time! 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