[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 121 (Monday, September 14, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D970]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NURSING HOME EMPLOYEE BACKGROUND CHECK
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
certain safeguard measures for identifying people who may pose a 
possible threat of abuse and neglect to residents of nursing homes and 
other long-term-care facilities, after receiving testimony from Thomas 
D. Roslewicz, Deputy Inspector General for Audit Services, Department 
of Health and Human Services; Claudia Stine, Wisconsin Board on Aging 
and Long Term Care, Madison; Kim D. Schmett, Iowa Department of 
Inspections and Appeals, Des Moines; Lee Bitler, Country Meadows 
Corporation, Hershey, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the American Health 
Care Association; Richard D. Reichard, National Lutheran Home for the 
Aged, Rockville, Maryland, on behalf of the American Association of 
Homes and Services for the Aging; Melissa Putnam, Beverly Manor, 
Reading, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Service Employees International 
Union; and Richard A. Meyer, Libertyville, Illinois.