New legal hotline to help nursing home residents

Friday, March 31st, 2006.

TX – Texas Legal Services Center is starting a new hotline aimed at helping nursing home or assisted living center residents report crimes. The TLSC created the hotline through a grant from the Attorney General of Texas Crime Victims Services Division.

“Our goal on the new hotline is to help victims of violent crime, abuse and neglect who reside in Texas facilities to enforce their rights,” Hotline attorney Tina Malone said. “In so doing, we hope to help ensure that the elderly and disabled who cannot care for themselves receive the quality care they deserve.”

Read the full text of the article >>

« Nursing Home Abuse News Main Page.

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Leave a Reply

All comments are moderated to prevent blog spam and thus will not automatically or immediately appear.