California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR), is a statewide nonprofit 501(c)(3) advocacy organization for California’s long term care consumers.
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CANHR is a co-sponsor of Assembly Bill 1663, The Probate Conservatorship Reform and Supported Decision-Making Act covered in this excellent opinion piece by the Times Editorial Board. latimes.com/opinion/story/20…
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.@justiceinaging is proud to join @sageusa @OpenhouseSF @CANHR_CA & CA Commission on Aging in an #amicus supporting California in a case regarding whether staff in long-term care facilities must address trans older adults by their correct pronouns #LGBTQIA bit.ly/3PV3TDG
Laguna Honda is the precious, irreplaceable home for its aged and disabled residents, who deserve far better than for regulators to force them to be shipped off to distant places unknown and more dangerous facilities. CANHR supports this petition. #SanFrancisco #LagunaHonda
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Because of an outdated formula, California’s Medi-Cal program only allows low-income older adults and people with disabilities to retain $600/mo for basic needs in order to access health care. It’s time to pass #AB1900 & #DitchTheDeductible. Learn more bit.ly/3v9XD43
An eye-opening CalMatters’ article published today reports that thousands of Californians are languishing in nursing homes despite their desires and abilities to return to the community and their civil right to do so. calmatters.org/health/2022/0…
Insufficient funding for home-based care puts strain on families to provide uncompensated care or place aging loved ones into institutions - which accounted for 40% of #COVID19 deaths. A great investment in #HCBS can fix this: bit.ly/3kJeFR4 #CareCantWait
NY Times story calls out growing use of fake schizophrenia diagnoses in nursing homes. This has been a concern for several years, but policymakers continue to enable overdrugging by finding thousands of instances of drug misuse to be "no harm." nytimes.com/2021/09/11/healt…
Michael Connors of CANHR: “I don’t think there are words enough to describe how appalled we are about it. The fact that they have responded by affirming those licenses rather than doing something that would benefit the residents is just super troubling.” calmatters.org/health/2021/0…
CMS Restores Tougher Penalties for Nursing Home Violations after lawsuit by CANHR and @ConsumerVoices. Read our full press release: canhr.org/newsroom/releases/…
The video recording of our Zoom Town Hall on The Current State of Visitation Rights in Long Term Care Facilities can now be viewed on the front page of our website. Thank you again to our guest speakers from the @EssentialCgC canhr.org/
On July 21st CANHR is holding a Zoom Town Hall on The Current State of Visitation Rights in Long Term Care Facilities, with guest speakers from the @EssentialCgC. Read more about it and register here: tinyurl.com/07212021townhall
CANHR has joined with 26 other disability rights organizations to submit an amicus brief in the Britney Spears conservatorship case, arguing in support of Ms. Spears' right to have a lawyer of her own choosing. Thanks to @ACLU_SoCal for leading this effort.
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We join multiple civil rights and disability rights orgs including @DisabilityCA, @TheArcUS, @public_rep, @DREDF, @CANHR_CA and @autselfadvocacy in filing the brief to @LASuperiorCourt in support of Spears's Sixth Amendment right to select her own counsel.
During the past year, residents of long-term care facilities and their families faced the unthinkable. #SB650 (@SenHenryStern) improves oversight, financial transparency, & accountability, because CA nursing homes must prioritize residents and #PutCareFirst.
”The equivalent would be if you got pulled over by a police officer for speeding and the police officer jumped in the car with you and said, 'ok, let's drive around and you show me your skills and I'll critique you,'” said CANHR's Tony Chicotel. kpbs.org/news/2021/jun/02/ca…
"California has, in a sense, rolled out the red carpet for bad providers," argues CANHR's Tony Chicotel. "You can get in the building, you can be a squatter, and they can't get you out."
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“Conditions in many facilities across the state have grown incredibly dire over the course of the pandemic and if anything, are as bad as they’ve ever been right now,” said Mike Dark, staff lawyer with California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform.
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“Many nursing home residents remain completely isolated from their loved ones because California and the federal government are not enforcing their directives to allow visitors,” said CANHR's Mike Connors.
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This Mother's Day Erika Shimahara shared in the following essay what it was like staying connected with her mother during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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“One in four Californians lost their lives to the COVID-19 pandemic in a nursing home. A tragedy made worse because the for-profit nursing home industry failed to keep our loved ones safe,” said Pat McGinnis, director of CANHR.
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