Recovery Home Care history

By 2000, nursing homes had become a 100 billion dollar industry, paid largely by Medicaid, Medicare, and resident out-of-pocket resources.

Karen Buhler-Wilkerson, No Place Like Home: A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001).

In 2004, the agency opened Visions Place, which is designed specifically for homeless individuals seeking treatment for co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.

Our Housing program began operations in 2005.

Karen Buhler-Wilkerson, “Care of the Chronically Ill at Home: An Unresolved Dilemma in Health Policy for the Unites States,” Milbank Quarterly, 85(4) (December 2007): 611-39.

Yet, in 2010, Medicaid alone forked over $130 billion (31% of total Medicaid spending) for long-term care.

The agency reached out to military veterans in need by creating an 18-bed facility, Liberty Hall, which opened in 2011 on the grounds of the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Batavia, NY. The transitional housing facility served homeless veterans with a substance use disorder.

In 2014, the agency acquired Ivy House, which served men; Casa Di Vita, which serves women; and additional Supportive Living beds from an agency in Buffalo that ceased operations.

The agency grew by its largest amount on January 1, 2016 when it assumed the operations of programs formerly managed by Fellowship House, Inc., a residential services provider to individuals in recovery in Niagara County.