This is the real 2026 picture for pennsylvania community healthchoices medicaid program in Media, Delaware County — real local numbers and how families here actually pay, not a national average.
The local picture in Media
Media is the Delaware County seat, a walkable "Everybody's Hometown" borough with a steady mix of senior care options around Downtown Media and Rose Tree.
Media sits in Delaware County. Nearby hospitals include Bryn Mawr Hospital, Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital, which matters for discharge planning and for staying close to a parent's doctors. Families here commonly focus on areas such as Downtown Media, Rose Tree, Wallingford-adjacent. Media pricing trends near or slightly above the metro median.
How Media families cover it
Most families layer several sources rather than relying on one. Usually it starts with private savings and Social Security, and long-term-care insurance kicks in next if there's a policy in place. Wartime veterans and surviving spouses should check VA Aid & Attendance through the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center. And Pennsylvania's Community HealthChoices (CHC), along with the LIFE program, can cover care services — though not room and board — for seniors who meet the functional and financial tests, after a nursing-facility level-of-care assessment. Media pricing trends near or slightly above the metro median.
A free advisor can sort out which of these your family actually qualifies for, and which Media-area providers will take them.
What shapes pennsylvania community healthchoices medicaid program here
Community HealthChoices (CHC) is Pennsylvania's main public path to help with long-term-care costs, a mandatory managed long-term services and supports (MLTSS) Medicaid program administered by the DHS Office of Long-Term Living and delivered through CHC managed-care organizations (in the Philadelphia region: AmeriHealth Caritas, Keystone First, PA Health & Wellness — verify current roster). Eligibility runs on two tracks — a nursing-facility level-of-care assessment, and a financial test. Pennsylvania's own brand of the National PACE program is called LIFE (e.g., LIFE Philadelphia); it is a separate program from the state's Rx-subsidy "PACE"/"PACENET," so ask specifically about LIFE if you mean long-term-care coverage.
Where to start
You don't have to sort this out alone. Call a free Philly Senior Advisor advisor at (855) 768-7212, or request a call back, and we'll match you to one to three vetted options.
