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Legal Fact of the Week: The 1987 Nursing Home Reform Act
The 1987 Nursing Home Reform Act was came about since it was piece of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987. The sole purpose of the Nursing Home Reform Act was to make certainty that residents of of Nursing Homes got good care.
This goal also made it clear that Nursing Residents’s physical, mental, and psycho-social conditions would be maintain as best as possible. Additionally, this Reform Act required Nursing Home Services to be govern.