02/01/2010
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"Should CMS have the authority to shut down ALFs when chronic problems are occurring and state regulators have failed to act?"
"So how do we prevent ALFs from becoming unregulated nursing homes?"
"let's see what we can do, at least, to make the suggestions to the states for the ombudsmen to be more effective."
"what the Miami Herald chronicled was not conditions that the community would accept at all--to the contrary, to the point of absolute shock and revulsion."