How Existing Legal Authorities Can Help Fix America's Nursing Home Crisis

Often the conversation about addressing the chronic poor care that exists in far too many of today's nursing homes is framed around new laws or regulations. Yet, there are steps that can be taken now - using existing federal and state legal authority - to improve care and conditions in our country's nursing homes. In our conversation, we will discuss four levers of opportunity for increasing quality and accountability in nursing homes with the author of "Using What We Have: How Existing Legal Authorities Can Help Fix America's Nursing Home Crisis."
Special Guest: Nina Kohn, J.D., the Solomon Center Distinguished Scholar in Elder Law at Yale Law School, the David M. Levy Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law, and a leading authority in elder law and the civil rights of older persons.

[@sumitra514]

Excellent presentation and discussion. It seems to me that States could really be effective in using its Medicaid administrative power to make facilities comply and address bad actors which in turn would push CMS to follow through on its certification mandate since they seem to rely on States licensure as a "proxy for quality".

[@williamhoward2731]

I wish to thank you for sharing this informational video with me . Amen