Nursing home lobby winning another battle
Monday, June 6th, 2005.
Layfayette, LA – If restoration of the nursing home cuts is not sufficient evidence of the power of the nursing home lobby, try this: the state House of Representatives recently shot down House Bill 388 that would have given nursing home residents who suffer mental or physical abuse the right to sue for damages. Under existing law, they can only sue to get the homes to stop the abuses. They can’t sue for money. The bill killed in the House would have provided stronger recourse for violations of several entitlements listed in the Nursing Home Resident’s Bill of Rights.
The question Baudoin asked her colleagues should haunt all 62 of those who voted against her bill for a long time. “Why,” she asked, “do we not want to allow these citizens the same protections as people outside of these facilities?”
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