Post by Logan on Mar 3, 2016 13:02:49 GMT -6
Bill would restrict how nursing home violations could be publicized
Frankfort -- A Senate committee approved a bill Wednesday that would restrict how information about a nursing home’s safety and health violations could be broadcast or published.
Senate Bill 205, approved by the Senate Health and Welfare Committee, would prohibit advertisers from mentioning deficiencies found at a nursing home by state inspectors unless they give equal prominence to the dates of the citations, the home’s corrective plans and whether the problems later were found to be resolved.
As originally written, the bill also would have covered “nongovernmental publications,” such as news stories on nursing homes. But the sponsor, Sen. Danny Carroll, R-Paducah, said he never intended to influence news reporting. With an amendment Wednesday to correct that “overreach,” he said he limited the bill’s focus to advertisements only.
Carroll said his target is advertising by lawyers who recruit clients to sue nursing homes. Often, to alarm the public, lawyers list a nursing home’s record of violations without explaining that the problems later were fixed, or they make the violations sound worse than they really were, Carroll said.
Read more here: www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article63624397.html
Frankfort -- A Senate committee approved a bill Wednesday that would restrict how information about a nursing home’s safety and health violations could be broadcast or published.
Senate Bill 205, approved by the Senate Health and Welfare Committee, would prohibit advertisers from mentioning deficiencies found at a nursing home by state inspectors unless they give equal prominence to the dates of the citations, the home’s corrective plans and whether the problems later were found to be resolved.
As originally written, the bill also would have covered “nongovernmental publications,” such as news stories on nursing homes. But the sponsor, Sen. Danny Carroll, R-Paducah, said he never intended to influence news reporting. With an amendment Wednesday to correct that “overreach,” he said he limited the bill’s focus to advertisements only.
Carroll said his target is advertising by lawyers who recruit clients to sue nursing homes. Often, to alarm the public, lawyers list a nursing home’s record of violations without explaining that the problems later were fixed, or they make the violations sound worse than they really were, Carroll said.
Read more here: www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article63624397.html