Thank you, Senator Blumenthal, for your never-ending commitment to ensure that patients and consumer voices are heard.

Will there be funding for nursing homes to put electronic health records?

And what has been the response since you were invited to Washington? Have you found greater receptivity since then?

Is it always a state team, or does it have state representation for these 5,000 site visits, which is a lot of visits?

If there are problems indicated at a particular nursing home, do you accelerate the re-review or the re-survey, the visits in that case?

there is really a need to address this issue, in my view, much more aggressively, and I take it from your testimony you agree.

Among the nursing homes that have been particularly active on anti-psychotic drugs or on preventable falls.

And what is the most serious enforcement efforts that you can take, and has the level of enforcement increased in severity and frequency?

And for your use of patient navigation, and thank you for being here today.

the Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement program is aimed at all of these problems.

We need partnerships for patients, but even more partnerships with patients so that they are involved and engaged as participants.

But should we simply disregard the normal antitrust analysis here?

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In the ordinary antitrust analysis, that would bespeak lack of significant competition.

It might even be regarded as a five-alarm fire.

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for holding this hearing.

I am very proud to join in the fight that Senator Schumer has so courageously waged over many, many years.

I view this hearing as tremendously and profoundly important.

I want to again express my appreciation.

I am not at all threatened. I am impressed.

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