Health Care & Hospital Law,
Covid Columns,
California Supreme Court
Sep. 1, 2020
Jarman: A nightmare year for nursing home residents gets worse
Given the state’s woeful performance safeguarding residents’ rights, Health and Safety Code Section 1430(b) litigation has been their best means for protection. The Jarman decision changes that, inviting nursing homes to ignore resident rights even more than they have been.
Please forgive California nursing home residents if they have already begun their countdown to New Year's Day 2021. Last March, federal, state, and local governments imposed a near-complete ban on visitation between residents and their families to stop coronavirus infections. It hasn't worked. Approximately one out of every 25 nursing home beds in California has been occupied by a resident killed by COVID-19 so far in 2020. Added to this mix of isolation and misery, o...
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