A new California law effective Wednesday will require nursing homes to offer residents copies of any information on their eviction, helping make appeals against the discharge easier to file. Evictions are one of the most common complaints reported to California’s Long Term Care Ombudsman programs, noted a report produced by CalMatters. In the past five […]
California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform
Nursing home and labor leaders believe more labor organizing will happen in conjunction with the forthcoming federal staffing minimum mandate, as the sector has historically seen a low proportion of workers covered by union contracts. Having a federal standard in place could begin collective bargaining efforts, or maybe remove this sticking point in labor negotiations, […]
Nursing home operators looking to purchase more facilities in California may need to get approval from the state Department of Public Health (CDPH) and meet certain qualifications, according to proposed guidelines introduced in a bill poised this week to move ahead in the state legislature. The state assembly is expected to vote on the bill […]
A bill that would require skilled nursing operators in California to report their finances to the state and the public is headed to to the governor. Senate Bill 650, also known as the Corporate Transparency in Elder Care Act of 2021, cleared both bodies of the state’s legislature after it passed in the Senate on […]
The AARP Foundation and the law firm Constance Cannon filed a lawsuit against the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and outgoing Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Alex Azar, alleging that the federal government put nursing home residents’ lives in danger by weakening enforcement of monetary penalties for nursing homes. The […]
The California Department of Health will be changing how state surveyors inspect nursing facilities, with an eye toward the conditions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic — and critics in the Golden State argued that the changes could lead to worse outcomes for patients. The station NBC Bay Area — KNTV reported on the change on […]
When it became apparent that COVID-19 was sweeping the country, one of the earliest major preventative steps was a move by the federal government to instate a near-total lockdown on any unnecessary visits. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the sweeping ban on March 13, which did include an exception for end-of-life […]
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