According to a story found on Redding.com, a monitoring program responsible for overseeing the activities of hundreds of nursing home facilities in northern California is being forced to scale back operations after losing a sizable portion of its budget.
These budget cutting concessions may lead to more cases of nursing home neglect in California. The Long Term Care Ombudsman Program is one of the programs curtailed by the budget cuts. This program provides for walk-through tours of nursing homes and other elderly care facilities, and has helped investigate hundreds of cases of nursing home neglect and abuse. While the walk-through tours will continue, their number will be scaled back dramatically.
