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Article: Nursing homes put on notice: Clinton announces crackdown on quality of care for the elderly
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- July 22, 1998
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Calling the care for the elderly one of the
nation's "most sacred duties," President Clinton said Tuesday he is
cracking down on nursing homes that are lax about quality and on
states that do a poor job of regulating them.
The president asked Congress to tighten oversight of nursing
homes. And he used his executive authority to require that states
inspect nursing homes on a frequent and random basis, "so there is no
time to hide neglect and abuse."
"The duty we owe to our parents is one of the most sacred duties
we as Americans owe to each other," Clinton said. "When people
living in nursing homes have as much fear from dehydration and poor
nutrition as they do from the ...