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Justice Department bolsters suit by California nursing home residents.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-AUG-03 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Nursing home residents who sued the city and county of San Francisco for not providing community-based long-term-care services received support from a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation that concluded "a significant number of ... residents are unnecessarily isolated in the nursing home."

The DOJ sent a "findings" letter to the city attorney of San Francisco in April, stating that the city and county are violating the antidiscrimination provisions of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) at Laguna Honda Hospital (LHH), a publicly run 1,200-bed nursing home. The facility "does not meet generally accepted professional standards," provides inadequate assessments at admission, doesn't identify means of or barriers to achieving community placement, and doesn't know what community programs currently exist, according to the letter.

"The city continues to be in violation of the ADA and continues to fail to ensure that LHH residents are being served in the most integrated setting appropriate...

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