Medicaid (Title XIX, Title 19) won’t affect your admission if you know what you’re doing. First of all, all the local facilities accept Medicaid. It’s true that Connecticut law allows nursing homes to admit private-pay patients ahead of Medicaid-eligible applicants if most of the home’s beds are occupied with Medicaid patients (and they usually are). However, the fail-safe is to make sure that you can apply as private-pay whenever you want to, by having a family member hold protected assets and use some to pay for the first couple of months. Doing so can be perfectly consistent with Medicaid asset protection planning. You’ll be admitted to a semi-private room, and then all the care is the same. You’ll be cared for by the same nursing staff, eat the same food, and receive the same therapies as anyone else, because the caregivers don’t know your payment source.