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“Across several states, evictions have increased since the COVID-19 pandemic. In California, nursing home eviction notices rose from 195 in 2022 to 273 in 2024. In Michigan, there were 317 nursing home eviction cases in 2024, up from 143 in 2022.

What those figures don’t capture are the countless quiet discharges that happen every day. An example is when a resident’s Medicare-funded rehabilitation ends and a nursing home insists it’s ‘time to go home,’ even though federal law offers broad protections against such forced removals, says Alison Hirschel, program director and managing attorney of the Michigan Elder Justice Initiative, which supports the legal needs of older adults and adults with disabilities.”