Nursing Homes

PACE lets seniors stay out of nursing homes and still receive a variety of health and home services. Too few people know about it.

The California Supreme Court upheld a law protecting the rights of LGBT people in nursing homes, including by forbidding employees from misgendering those patients.

Programs helping Californians care for dementia or Alzheimer’s patients already struggle. Recent proposals to cut Medicaid money makes this bad situation worse.

The new law is meant to help nursing home residents understand the reasons for their discharge, and inform them of their rights to appeal.

California health officials say granting the licenses prevents the eviction of hundreds of residents from their homes and provides oversight provisions, including a two-year monitoring period.

The bill by two Assembly Democrats followed a CalMatters investigation that exposed serious flaws in the state’s nursing home licensing system.

After lawmakers scaled back a California nursing homes licensing bill, critics said it would let the worst operators thrive, but other advocates insisted it was still a step in the right direction.

Gov. Newsom’s proposed state budget, if adopted, would reduce access to skilled nursing facilities for those insured by Medi-Cal, force cuts to health-care workers’ wages and threaten nursing homes with closure.

About 11,500 long-term care center workers are now sick with COVID. “It's been like one coworker after another, after another, everyone getting sick,” one nursing assistant said.

In a parallel problem to patient ‘dumping,’ many poor nursing home residents find themselves stuck inside facilities and unable to return home.