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: Illinois Nursing Home Abuse BlogBill that would require long-term care workers to have background checks introduced
By Levin & Perconti
Two Senators last week introduced a bill to establish a nationwide system of background checks to prevent people with criminal histories from working in nursing homes. Thre bill is called the Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act, which expands on a three-year pilot program helped to prevent applicants with a criminal record from working in long-term care. Often times, nursing home abuse occurs when nursing homes fail to properly screen their employees who work with some of the most vulnerable people.
To read the full article on the nursing home bill.
Full post as published by Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog on March 22, 2009 (boomark / email).
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