Eric Carlson in Assisted Living Article
Published on 2008/02/12NSCLC's long-term care expert Eric Carlson appears in an article about state regulations that allow assisted living facilities to evict residents without reason.
Assisted living facilities evict easily; legislator seeks reasons
Jay Sparaga, who has diabetes and uses a wheelchair, moved last year
into the Munne Center assisted living facility, south of Miami, where
he can get meals and care. But the management has informed the 60-year-old Sparaga he must leave Sunday. They don't even have to tell him why.
State regulations allow assisted living facilities — whose residents
may be very sick or frail, or have no family to look after them — to
discharge their residents with a simple 45-day notice, without giving a
reason. Residents have no right to appeal. South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Feb. 9, 2008.
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