Nursing home rule decried (Long Beach Press-Telegram)


After Maggie Gibson, in pain, took an ambulance ride to the hospital from a Durham, N.C., nursing home, family members were stunned to learn that doctors had found a hip fracture. Gibson's daughter was able to get to the bottom of what happened in the 2006 incident. But a recent Bush administration change in federal rules on nursing home inspections makes it nearly impossible for others to do ...

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