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- Connecticut Nursing Facility Residents Win Transfer/Discharge Appeals
- Basing its rulings primarily on inadequacies in notices and discharge planning, Connecticut hearing officers twice refused nursing facilities’ attempts to involuntarily discharge residents. ...
- Faulty Nonpayment Notices Prevent Nursing Facility from Transferring Resident
- A Missouri trial court reversed an eviction ruling issued by the Missouri Department of Senior Services, in a case in which the resident had owed money but had paid in full before the administrative h...
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Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act
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- Senators Mel Martinez (R-FL) and Herb Kohl (D-WI) yesterday introduced the Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act. The legislation amends the Federal Arbitration Act to bar pre-dispute arbitration ...
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California Court Upholds Readmission of Nursing Facility Resident
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- A Los Angeles trial court upheld a nursing facility resident’s right to readmission from a hospital. Vernon Convalescent Hosp. v. Cal. Dep’t of Health Services (Edward Bush, Real Party in Interes...
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Think Twice Before Signing: Executive Summary
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- Executive summary of the report...
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Nursing Home Admission Agreements: Missouri Consumer Guide
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- A Guide for Missouri Nursing Home Residents and Their Families ...
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Think Twice Before Signing: Improper and Unfair Provisions in Missouri Nursing Home Admission Agreements
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- Report on a study by the National Senior Citizens Law Center that found that admission agreements for Missouri nursing homes can mislead residents and their family members...
- CA’s Standard Admission Agreement Must Be Revised, But NSCLC’s Intervention Arguments Limit the Damage
- A California trial court has ordered the Department of Health Services to revise the state’s standard nursing facility admission agreement....
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Tenn. Resident Wins Nursing Home Eviction Case
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- A Tennessee nursing facility attempted to evict a resident on two grounds--that the resident’s welfare could not be assured due to her inability to obtain physician services, and that her presence t...
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Cal. Resident Wins Nursing Facility Discharge Case
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- A California resident was admitted to a nursing facility in April 2001, with his care reimbursed through Medicaid. In August 2005, Medicaid eligibility was terminated based on the resident’s immigra...