The influx of felons into main-stream nursing homes. It may be legal, but does it pose a threat to granny?
In California, the never ending quest to chop money from state budgets has taken a new turn as state prison officials have initiated a new medical parole program which allows medically incapacitated felons to utilize the services of private nursing homes. Starting in 2010, the California Correctional system placed 29 inmates--- not parolees or people whom have already served their time--- but real, hardened criminals--- whom have suffered form some type of medical incapacity that they now require medical care; into the hands of skilled nursing facilities throughout the state. Under a medical parole policy chronicled recently in a New...
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California Nursing Homes Hit With Hefty Fines
California has one of the strictest and most severe policies when it comes to dispensing fines to nursing homes who provide poor or dangerous care. Say what you like about regulation of nursing homes, the reality is that fines really do help improve care and living conditions for nursing home residents. The state imposed substantial fines against two Orange County nursing homes for providing inadequate resident care. $100,000 Fine A $100,000 fine was handed to Alamitos West Health Care Center for allowing an 82-year-old resident to die from dehydration and acute kidney failure. Less than a month after her...
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