Congress: Protect the health and rights of nursing home residents

Nearly half of COVID-19 deaths are nursing home residents or care providers. But right now, some are responding to this crisis by proposing to protect nursing home facilities from lawsuits.

Congress MUST protect the health and rights of residents and their families to seek legal justice. Care facilities need to be held accountable when residents suffer harm, neglect, and even death.

Tell your lawmakers: Uphold the health and rights of nursing home residents and their families during the pandemic. Reject any proposal that allows nursing homes to avoid legal accountability related to COVID-19.

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I urge you to reject proposals to grant legal immunity related to COVID-19 for nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and other long-term care facilities.

The death toll in nursing homes is horrific. The last thing residents and their families need is to be stripped of their ability to hold facilities legally accountable when residents suffer harm, neglect, and even death.

While the coronavirus itself is not the fault of facilities, it is essential that long-term care providers remain responsible for negligent actions. And right now, because of lockdowns preventing visitors, there is less oversight and attention to what is happening in facilities. Now more than ever, residents and their families must have access to the legal system to seek justice.

Nursing homes and other facilities should know they will continue to be held responsible -- and legal accountability helps ensure facilities self-correct their behavior and address problems to protect the health and safety of residents.

As your constituent and an AARP member, I'm looking to you for swift action to protect the health and safety of loved ones living in nursing homes -- not to limit accountability in residential care facilities. Please, reject any proposal that would grant care facilities legal immunity related to COVID-19.

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