Adult Day Care Centers - NYTimes.com The Visiting Nurse Service of New York has been caring for vulnerable New Yorkers for 120 years, providing vital services to the homebound elderly and chronically ill. Our mission has always been to keep New Yorkers safe at home and in their communities, allowing them to live more fulfilling and active lives. The socialization value of adult day care centers is indisputable, and that is why they are an authorized part of New York's managed long-term care plan for Medicaid. The implication in "Day Centers Sprout Up, Luring Fit Elders and Costing Medicaid" (front page, April 23) and "State Suspends Enrollment in an Adult Care Plan Amid Concerns Over Fraud" (news article, April 26) that we have been engaging in improper marketing or enrollment is deeply disturbing. The Visiting Nurse Service works with government agencies to make certain that only those New Yorkers eligible for Medicaid-funded long-term care plans are enrolled and receive the covered services. If we ever learn of improper enrollment or marketing activities, such conduct by employees or contractors would be immediately remedied. Any attempt to paint the industry as corrupt because of the expansion of adult day centers is ultimately harmful to the thousands of New Yorkers who now benefit from them. MARY ANN CHRISTOPHER President and Chief Executive The Visiting Nurse Service of New York New York, April 26, 2013