Tag: personal care homes
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Nursing homes and other elderly caregivers will have to do national, fingerprint-based background checks on employees
Nursing homes and many other health care providers will be required to obtain national criminal background checks on new employees and others who provide direct one-on-one care to elderly residents...
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Mentally ill in personal-care homes, or at risk of going there, will have increased access to behavioral health care in Kentucky
The state Cabinet for Health and Family Services is extending an agreement that provides housing assistance and services to people with serious mental illness has been extended through Septemnber 2018, and is...
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Agreement will move at least 600 from personal-care homes to community mental health facilities
At least 600 people now in personal-care homes will be moved to community-based settings under “an agreement that advocates say will systematically change the way community mental health services are...
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Bills would require more assessment before a patient can be admitted to a personal-care home
Legislation dubbed “Larry’s Law” is aimed at preventing what happened to Larry Lee from happening again. House Bill 307, filed by Democratic Rep. Terry Mills, right, “would require an individual...
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Brain-injured man disappeared when home staff wasn’t looking
On the day of his disappearance, a resident of a personal-care home who was found dead four weeks later had not been checked on by staff for nearly three hours,...