United States: California Nursing Home Dumping Appeal Process Doesn’t Satisfy FNHRA

Mealey's (September 13, 2021, 9:26 AM EDT) -- OAKLAND, Calif. — The procedures California provides to nursing home residents who are wrongfully discharged or transferred “do not satisfy the state’s obligations” under the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act (FNHRA) “to take prompt corrective action to enforce appeals resolved in nursing home residents’ favor,” the United States says in a Sept. 3 statement of interest responding to seven questions posed by a federal judge in California....