As if long term care consumers aren’t punished enough, the House Energy and Commerce Committee is now considering capping the Home equity limits back to the minimum ($500,000 plus inflation).
In an extraordinary success for a unique “public-private partnership” of Ombudsman and attorneys, a couple of fruitless Department of Public Health (DPH) nursing home complaints were recently turned into high-level citations and fines.
LOS ANGELES – Attorney General Kamala Harris today announced that Valley Springs Manor owner Herminigilda Noveda Manuel and administrator Edgar Babael were charged on fourteen felony counts of elder abuse for abandoning the residents of their facility.Manuel and Babael operated Valley Springs Manor, a residential care facility for the elderly that was ordered closed in October 2013 after the Department of Social Services found multiple licensing violations.
Governor Jerry Brown signed AB 601 (Eggman) into law on Thursday. This bill establishes specific suitability requirements and requires applicants who are seeking a license to run an assisted living/residential care facilities for the elderly to submit information on ownership and prior ownership of any type of facility, in any state, including a history of compliance with applicable laws.
For more information contact: Pat McGinnis or Mike Connors (415) 974–5171 Governor Jerry Brown signed AB 601 (Eggman) into law on Thursday. This bill establishes specific suitability requirements and requires applicants who are seeking a license to run an assisted living/residential care facilities for the elderly to submit information on ownership and prior ownership of any type of facility, in any state, including a history of compliance with applicable laws.
On October 5, 2015, Governor Brown signed landmark legislation – AB 15, the End of Life Options – allowing terminally ill patients to obtain lethal medications to end their lives when they choose.
In another feature to its excellent reporting on failures in nursing home care, Al Jazeera’s “America Tonight” program examined more problematic elements of drugging dementia last week.
The Justice Department announced today that it has reached a settlement that resolves allegations that the owners and managers of a continuing care retirement community known as Sedgebrook violated the Fair Housing Act by instituting policies and maintaining practices that discriminated against residents with disabilities at the facility, which is located in Lincolnshire, Illinois.
Generally, if an SSI recipient enters a nursing home and Medi-Cal is paying for the cost of care, the recipient’s SSI benefit will be lowered to $50 per month.
A female resident of Oakpark Healthcare Center died on 1/27/2013 from an infected and gangrenous foot wound. The resident was admitted to the facility with kidney disease, dementia, and diabetes.