Our state quickly passed an immunity Law during the pandemic that overly protected long-term care facilities from accountability and left no protections for this volunerable population with high needs. Everything the industry wanted was worded into this bill. However, now there is a chance to protect the residents by allowing electronic monitoring in long-term care.

This video is point on. However there is launguage that may be offensive to some. It does include the F Bomb. Please do not watch if this would offend you. Minus the some of the language it is a very good video.+

There are links in this article to the most current guidelines from CMS and CDC. They also give a great summary of these changes

See letter below from a hospital, this raised many questions…..

• Why didn’t we have one facility taking Covid Patients?

• Why were families locked out when it was directly being brought into some facilities?

• Families were told they could not have restricted, limited visits, until there were no Covid cases, this would make the wait longer.

This story reveals many of the concerns our organization and families have had

https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/families-frustrated-with-covid-restrictions-for-visiting-loved-ones-in-nursing-homes

We are soon approaching one year of this lock down in long-term care facilities come March. The residents continue to lack the respect, dignity and care they deserve. For those most adversely affected The families continue to be ignored.

Some things to note: This order states that the facilities must update the visiting dashing board on the Ohio Covid Dashboard. We thought this was already being done so families would

Great source of information on nursing homes in Ohio and on the side tabs, you can pull up any state. Some of the information it gives is deficiencies, serious deficiencies and

This shows what taking away regular outside oversight and taking away from the resident access to one primary support person leads to…..these residents in long-term care were left to fend, protect and advocate for themselves when many could not. Then

Giving back isn’t canceled. Ahead of #GivingTuesday (Tomorrow, Dec 1), we’re sharing ways you can express generosity right from your own home. Visit www.elderlyadvoactes.org/fundraisers to learn more.

We have done a poor job protecting those in long-term care from COVID, we can easily see that by the number of deaths. Let’s just agree for the bigger picture that covid is hard to control. But, what about neglect? We can’t stop that?? We call this

This article contains much good information and also at the bottom of the page gives

This Alert was just put out by CMS regarding taking residents out for the Holidays. Although it is a resident’s right to leave, CMS is discouraging the residents leaving the facility on the holidays. due to

If you have A Healthcare Power of Attorney for your loved one, under HIPAA, you have access to their medical records in a long-term care facility, These are critical to have as POA’s have been locked out of facilities with very little access to loved one or inside their rooms. This is the only way you

National Consumer Voice holds their annual Residents Rights Celebration in October. We will participate by bringing awareness that COVID took them away. Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facilities appear to continue a plan that keeps residents locked up for the most part and will continue to largely ignore Resident Rights

The State update on September 26, 2020 now allows indoor visiting October 12, 2020. However, this announcement was even more restrictive than CMS as it allows

Families are getting more and more frustrated that cold weather and winter is fast approaching and there has been no plan for inside visits. Although some facilities have done a great job helping families visit outside, still too many, are not. The ones that are not

CMS released a memo on 9/17/2020 that gives new guidance in nursing homes engaging outside and inside visits depending on weather. It also states they must have a safety or clinical reason