Involuntary nursing home discharges and transfers are a legitimate problem in the United States. According to the States’ Long-Term Care Ombudsman Programs (LTCOP), one of their top 5 complaints is inadequate discharge planning or improper evictions from nursing home facilities. In fact, annually there are approximately 14,000 complaints of this sort that the LTCOP attempts…
Read More
What You Need to Know About Leaving a Nursing Home BEFORE You Move In Tuesday, February 8, 12:00 p.m. Navigating long-term care can feel difficult. From choosing facilities, how we will pay for our long-term care, and knowing what to do when things aren’t working out at a care facility. To better protect ourselves and…
Read More
Happy New Year to everyone from VOYCE, we hope that you had a great holiday season. One of VOYCE’s core programs is our Education Series. VOYCE believes that for all long-term care residents to make the greatest use of their rights, it is important that families and professionals have up-to-date knowledge. Over the course of…
Read More
The toll that Covid-19 has taken on long-term care(LTC) residents is staggering, from increased likelihood of elder abuse to being targets for scams related to COVID-19. The risks that COVID-19 placed on the health of older adults and the ways it swept through long-term care homes caused residents to lose many of their rights. As…
Read More
Residents have rights. This is the core of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program, which is dedicated to advocating for the rights of residents. During this pandemic, we have seen rights in direct conflict with health and safety precautions against COVID-19. Most notably is a resident’s right to have visitors. Since March of 2020, visitation guidance…
Read More
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued their emergency regulation requiring healthcare workers to become fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by January 4, 2022. VOYCE advocates on behalf of residents in long-term care and we are pleased to see that this regulation not only includes long-term care clinical and non-clinical staff, but also…
Read More
