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Nursing HomesAssisted Living/Board & Care Home and Community Based Services
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Nursing HomesAssisted Living/Board & Care Home and Community Based Services
August 13, 2020
On August 13, New Jersey State Long-Term Care Ombudsman, Laurie Facciarossa Brewer, provided testimony before a joint legislative committee in support of a host of bills designed to reform the state's long-term care system.
July 29, 2020
After leaving the position unfilled for 10 months, five of them through a pandemic that has killed 2,557 in Florida long-term care, Florida has hired Michael Phillips as the new permanent State Long-Term Care Ombudsman to advocate for nursing home residents. Phillips previously served as the Ombudsman program’s regional manager for the district stretching from Pensacola to Jacksonville.
July 28, 2020
The Houston Chronicle featured a story on coronavirus case data in nursing homes. New data was released by the state of Texas showing how many residents and staff had been infected in individual nursing homes and assisted living facilities. The move to disclose the data increased transparency that advocates and relatives had long demanded.