Calif. Long-Term Care Ombudsmen Concerned With Medical Parole Law

[LTCCareer.com]

Friday, January 20, 2012

Long-term care ombudsmen in California are raising concerns that a state law  allowing paroled prison inmates to receive care at nursing homes could be  putting other nursing home residents at risk, the Bay Citizen/New York Times reports (Mieszkowski, Bay Citizen/New York Times, 1/19).

Background

SB 1399 allows inmates deemed medically incapacitated to  receive parole as part of efforts to reduce state spending on prison health  care.

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