"The Community Living Ombudsman Program provides advocates who help people with disabilities living in state licensed, privately operated facilities overcome injustice or the delay and impersonal delivery of services."
Citing a recent El Paso self-neglect case, this article calls for passage of Louisiana Senator John Breaux's Elder Justice Act to "raise the problems of elder abuse to a new level and compel caseworkers to help those in need."
Panel rejects rights of patients at homes to sue over treatment
Vulnerable Adult Abuse
Nursing Home
Legislation
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House Bill 1032, which would restore to nursing home residents the right to file a civil lawsuit and recover damages from nursing homes that deprive them of their rights, was voted down by a House panel.
Short article says the Louisiana Nursing Home Association is calling for the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals to "begin inspecting and regulating the state's one-thousand assisted living facilities."
Newspaper is reporting the Elder Justice Act is dead because it "received a tepid reception from the Bush administration over the additional bureaucracy the bill would create."
