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FATE provides information, counseling, advice, resources and referrals to those who need assistance in dealing with care of the elderly.

One source of information are our news updates.  Click on the entries below to read the stories (You will need Acrobat Reader™ to view and print these files):

• OIG Report, Trends in Nursing Home Deficiencies/Complaints

• Violations Reported at 94% of Nursing Homes

• Fla. Medicaid recipients want out of nursing homes

• Placerville nursing home fined after patient death

• Nursing Home Arbitration Act.  The Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act was passed by the House Judiciary Committee in July moving it one step closer to becoming law.  This bill prohibits the signing of an arbitration agreement as the only method of dispute resolution prior to nursing home admission, restoring a citizen’s right to seek justice in a law court once they have been admitted to a nursing home facility.   

  These pre-admission agreements protect long-term care facilities from the consequences of allowing abuse and neglect to occur on their premises.  Agreements to use arbitration to resolve a dispute between a resident and the nursing home corporation are still allowed, as long as they are entered into voluntarily and are made after the dispute has arisen.

• To Be Old, Frail and Evicted: Patients at Risk
• Radio host to pay fine in AG's inquiry
• Caregivers Demand Better Patient Care at 8 Bay Area Nursing Homes                    
• Lawmakers look at sex offenders in nursing homes
• Future of arbitration clauses up in the air
• Lilly Loses Appeal to Limit Damages in Canadian Suit (Update2)
• California budget cuts could delay conservator reforms
• State regulators clamp down on nursing home after deaths
• For the Elderly, Being Heard About Life's End
• Marysville nursing home fined $100,000
• Nursing facilities cut use of restraints
• 1 life hijacked
• Avoiding Conservatorship
• A Touch of Grace: Massage Therapy Aids Retired Nuns
• Life and Dignity of Aging Priest in Danger
• Modesto nursing home gets state's harshest fine
• Shameful Abuse Of Probate
• Fighting Bedsores With a Team Approach
• Should Nursing Homes Be for Profit?
• A Hidden Crime
• Chief justice of probate presses for an overhaul
• Courts strip elders of their independence
• Prescription Abuse Seen In U.S. Nursing Homes
• Study Finds Higher Costs for Caregivers of Elderly
• Nursing home care draws critical eye
• Nursing home citations decrease
• Judicial council Approves New Protections For Conservatees in California Courts
• Deadly Bacteria Found to Be More Common
• Did nursing home company buy Schumer's help?
• More Profit and Less Nursing at Many Homes
• Blacks receive unequal nursing-home care, report finds
• Nursing Home Owners Acquitted in Deaths
• State to probe care at Yountville veterans home
• Care home license in peril
• Care provider charged in death at nursing home
• Hillary, Bill Clinton Linked to Elder Scam - How Much Were They Paid?
• Letter by Carole Herman published in the Boston Herald 5/21/07
• Nursing home employee charged with stealing medicine
• Second South Bay nursing home operated by Easterday fined
• California State Auditor Report Release - Department of Health Services
• SF's agency to protect aged falls under fire
• Italy's alternative to nursing homes: Ukrainian caregivers
• A daughter's outrage
• Patient care shortchanged
• Nursing Home Operator Sentenced to Federal Prison for Worthless Services to Patients
• State nursing home oversight lacking
• L.A. files patient `dumping' charges
• KCRA 3 DHS Investigation.  Note: This link takes you to the KCRA website.  Select the "PLAY" button adjacent to "KCRA 3 Investigates: Nursing Home Oversight Lacking" to see the video. An advertisement may play before the article.

• Justices Overturn Order Allowing Plaintiffs to Depose Convalescent Hospital’s Attorney in Malpractice Suit

• 'Green Houses' for golden years
• Nursing home fraud, neglect and abuse much too common
• DHS Failing to Regulate Nursing Home Staffing
• State Conservatorship Reforms Approved
• California Supreme Court Ruling Protects Assets of the Elderly From Fraud and Undue Influence
• Beverly history. But Beverly is not the lone ranger in the industry!
• Beverly to pay $20 million to settle fraud charge
• Former Beverly to settle suit
• Lawsuit charges negligence for maggots on surgical negligence
• Ceiling collapses in Daytona
• Consumer Reports Study on SNFS: None recommended in California
• CMS NEWS: HHS provides funding to states for alternatives to nursing home care in MEDICAID
• PRESS RELEASE: Class AA Citation issued against a Sacramento nursing home after death of a patient
• Bill would give self-paying nursing home patients more rights

• Who's Guarding Us From Guardians? AARP Reports an Alarming Lack of Court Monitoring

• Patient sues nursing home chain
• Nursing homes seen deficient on basic care

• Erin Brockovich takes on hospitals

• Nursing Home Abuse: The Perils of an
  Institutionalized Life

• Are there any dietary ways to speed up the healing of bedsores? - The Boston Globe 5-29-06

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