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CA Dept of Public Health to Require Inspectors to “Adopt” a Nursing Home & Serve as Consultants

Last week – while the staggering death toll for California nursing home residents from COVID-19 surpassed 2,000 – a top official at the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) testified at separate Assembly and Senate oversight hearings on its plan to reform nursing home oversight.

Inconceivably, the central feature of CDPH’s plan is to turn hundreds of its nursing home inspectors into free, part-time consultants to the very same nursing homes they are required to inspect and regulate. It’s calling this plan the “Adopt a SNF Model.”

CDPH presented its plan at a June 9 hearing by the Assembly Committees on Health and Aging & Long-Term Care and a June 10 hearing by the Senate Special Committee on Pandemic Emergency Response. The hearings examined what went wrong in California skilled nursing facilities and with the State’s response and what lessons have been learned.

Read the rest of the article on the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform website