Showing posts with label nursing homes. Show all posts
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Friday, August 11, 2017

Sens. Franken, Wyden Lead Push to Stop Trump Administration From Ending Protections for Nursing Home Residents

Washington, D.C. - August 11, 2017 (The Ponder News) -- Sens. Al Franken and Ron Wyden are leading a major effort to push the Trump Administration's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to abandon a proposal to scrap protections that prevent nursing homes and long-term care facilities from locking residents into forced arbitration agreements.

"Forced arbitration clauses in nursing home agreements stack the deck against residents and their families who face a wide range of potential harms, including physical abuse and neglect, sexual assault, and even wrongful death at the hands of those working in and managing long-term care facilities," the Senators wrote in a letter Monday to CMS Administrator Seema Verma. "These clauses prevent many of our country's most vulnerable individuals from seeking justice in a court of law, and instead funnel all types of legal claims, no matter how egregious, into a privatized dispute resolution system that is often biased toward the nursing home."

The Senators, joined on the letter by 29 of their colleagues, went on to write, "Therefore, we strongly urge CMS to fully protect many of our nation's most vulnerable individuals by withdrawing this proposal and sustaining and fully enforcing the existing restrictions on pre-dispute arbitration clauses in long-term care facility contracts."

You can read the full letter by clicking HERE