figuring out what needs to change.

IMO, this act will hurt residents. I'd like to read the nyt article but can't.

The link in the O.P. is to The Hill.

I am assuming nursing facilities will now be giving their inadequately paid and often barely qualified and overworked high turn over rate no benefits staff one time bonuses because of this rule change?

Nah.

Having just gone through this with several parents and in-laws,
Senior Living is a totally corrupt business. Not the caregivers, mind you.
But the crooks behind the scenes. All I can say is watch out and
don't sign anything without expert legal help.

or checks up on him. Would serve him right.

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two of them. I have yet to see one fit for humans.

Just last year, when one was cited to be shut down for violations, everyone on the staff but the skeleton crew including a cook and a janitor were told by the owners to leave because "the county will take over" - leaving the 14 residents bed bound with whatever medicines and food were left.
The county wasn't ready because the company was supposed to provide a plan to turn the site and records over to the state within a reasonable amount of time, instead of just pulling out and dumping the site.

http://www.healthcarefacilitiestoday.com/posts/Unpaid-janitor-cook-stayed-with-abandoned-nursing-home-patients--2817

Who knows how many other facilities like that just dump patients or sites whenever it becomes inconvenient or there's a "black mark" on their record because of difficult patients they're supposed to be caring for.

Haele

People are going to die...

Let the rich prey on the poor and sick, the aged and mentally ill. Let nothing cut into the profits of these scumbags.