Month: March 2018
Your Rights As a Nursing Home Resident in Illinois
Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing homes offer residents many protections against abuse and neglect and outlines specific resident rights that you are entitled to. The Illinois Nursing Home Care Act also provides residents many protections. While these rights and protections exist, it is often up
Nursing Home Guide: Medicare’s Nursing Home Checklist
In order to choose the best nursing home or long-term care facility for your loved one, Medicare offers several tools to compare facilities, look up facility rankings and to learn more about each individual facility. Medicare also offers a comprehensive nursing home guide – a
Pivotal Nursing Home Suit Raises a Simple Question: Who Signed the Contract? – The New York Times
I’ve written over the years about the dangers of forced arbitration. (See Class Dismissed: Concepcion and the End of Class Arbitration). Now, more than ever, nursing home arbitration clauses are harming consumers. Over the last few years, as the New York Times reports “it has