Alison Hirschel, senior legal counsel to the Michigan Long Term Care Ombudsman Program, in Becker's Hospital Review's: "Some nursing homes evicting unprofitable patients by claiming they have psych issues"

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Mon, 09/21/2020
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"We have been seeing these kinds of illegal discharges all the time, because nursing homes seem to have figured out that they will rarely, if ever, be penalized," said Alison Hirschel, senior legal counsel to the Michigan ombudsman program. She said Medicaid patients requiring lots of staff attention "have a target on their back." Read article here.