In this Issue

• Court Declares Nursing Home Residents Have Right to Sue States (Like California) With “Meaningless” Eviction Appeals
• CANHR v Smith – At Long Last, Constitutional Rights for “Unrepresented” Patients
• CMS Issues Proposed Regulations to Rollback Nursing Home Requirements
• Senate Finance Committee Holds Hearing on Elder Abuse in Nursing Homes
• Horrific Abuse Scandal Exposed at Laguna Honda in San Francisco
• New Study Finds 75 Percent of Nursing Homes Almost Never Have Enough RN staff to Meet Resident Needs
• State Raises Income Limit for Medi-Cal Aged & Disabled Program

Court Declares Nursing Home Residents Have Right to Sue States (Like California) With “Meaningless” Eviction Appeals

On July 18, 2019, The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with CANHR and three nursing home residents who sued California for ignoring its own administrative orders.

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