NURSING HOMES

Articles and editorials

Abuse of the Aged Must End, 24673 [23SE]

Broken Promise—Life Care Communities, 17290-17293 [26JN]

Nursing Home Gets Ready for Purim, 8513 [18AP]

Nursing-Home Sleuths—Investigators Are Needed To Watch Out for Bad Guys, 30944 [6NO]

Official Backs VA Decision, 31660 [13NO]

Solving the Age-Old Problem, 17288-17290 [26JN]

Bills and resolutions

Aged: FTC study of unfair and deceptive acts by life care communities (see H.R. 2042)

Hazardous substances: use of certain toxic materials in construction (see H.R. 1199)

Medicare: State payment for reservation of nursing home beds (see H.R. 3062)

Medicare/medicaid: security of patients' funds maintained by skilled nursing facilities (see H.R. 2832)

National Adult Day Care Center Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 117, 119; H.J. Res. 229)

National Nursing Home Residents Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 217)

Senior Center Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 60; H.J. Res. 146)

Social Security: flexible income contribution and resource standards for certain couples (see H.R. 166)

Veterans: improve hospital, nursing home, or domiciliary care (see H.R. 1504)

———treatment in State facilities (see H.R. 182)

Letters

Continuing care facilities amendments to imputed interest rates legislation (H.R. 2475): Ronald A. Pearlman, 17296 [26JN]

Life care: Sheldon L. Goldberg, 17288 [26JN]

Medicare reimbursement: American Association of Retired Persons (excerpt), 31948, 31949 [14NO]

Proposal to establish a VA Medical Center in Mobile, AL: Everett Alvarez, Jr., 30653 [6NO]

———Harry N. Walters, 30653 [6NO], 31663 [13NO]

———John S. Staum, 31659 [13NO]

———Senator Cranston, 31662 [13NO]

———Senator Denton (Dear Colleague), 31661 [13NO]

Papers

Visitation Ministry to Nursing Home Residents: Walter L. Piotrowski, 4238 [28FE]

Petitions

Federal and State assistance for elderly citizens in need of nursing care: Baltimore, MD, City Council, 38667 [19DE]

Poems

``Like Butterflies'': Anna Kempe, 11929 [14MY]

Proclamations

Anniversary of the Wartburg Lutheran Home for the Aging, New York, NY: Brooklyn Borough, NY, president Howard Golden, 18533 [10JY]

Remarks in House

Aged: abuse, 24673 [23SE]

———overview of survey of rural services, 8789 [22AP]

American Association of Homes for the Aging: tribute, 8797 [22AP]

Health Saving Services: nursing home facilities, 20864 [26JY]

Life care homes: provide for protection for residents (H.R. 2042), 7848 [15AP]

Long-term care: protect rights of patients in facilities, 34058 [3DE]

Medicare Fair Hospital Deductible Act: enact (H.R. 3630), 29312 [28OC]

National Nursing Home Week: observance, 11929 [14MY]

New York, NY: anniversary of Wartburg Lutheran Home for the Aging, 18532 [10JY]

Reservations: require States to provide for payment (H.R. 3062), 22809 [1AU]

Sacramento, CA: establishment of a nursing home in the Asian community, 26142 [3OC]

State veterans' homes: VA payments shall not be treated as liability payments for medicaid purposes (H.R. 3142), 22055 [31JY]

Weiss, Andor: tribute, 6504 [27MR]

Remarks in Senate

Health: feasibility plan for purchase of existing facility for hospital and nursing home care, 31643-31663 [13NO]

———penalty-free withdrawal from individual retirement accounts for payment of institutional care (S. 1183), 12950 [21MY]

Jewish Visitation Program of the Friends of Lubavitch: tribute, 13674 [23MY]

Medicare: reimbursements, 31947-31951 [14NO]

National Nursing Home Residents Day: observance, 9645 [26AP]

National Nursing Home Week: observance, 10282 [2MY]

Real property: imputed interest rates relative to continuing care facilities, 17280-17300 [26JN]

VA: feasibility plan for purchase of existing facility for hospital and nursing home care, 30650-30656, 30677-30679 [6NO]

Statements

Life Care Home Consumer Fraud and Abuse (excerpt), 7849 [15AP]

Summaries

Provide Protection for Residents of Life Care Homes (H.R. 2042), 7850 [15AP]

Surveys

Financing Long-Term Care: Dept. of HHS (excerpt), 17293 [26JN]

Telegrams

Proposal to establish a VA Medical Center in Mobile, AL: Ben R. Hatfield, 31660 [13NO]

———Melvin D. Buerckley, 31660 [13NO]

———Pete B. Ganey, 31660 [13NO]

———Terry Gautier, 31660 [13NO]

———William Stoudenmire, 31660 [13NO]

Texts of

H.R. 3630, Medicare Fair Hospital Deductible Act, 29312 [28OC]

S. 1183, penalty-free withdrawal from individual retirement accounts for payment of institutional care, 12950 [21MY]