More than 60 nursing home caregivers from across the nation met with a dozen Senators or their staff, sharing their experiences working the front-line of nursing homes and asking the Senators to co-sponsor the Nursing Home Transparency and Improvement Act (S2641).

The bill would require better disclosure of who owns a nursing home and who is ultimately responsible for the quality of care, both of which are difficult to determine when buyout firms set up layer upon layer of business entities to run nursing homes. The bill also requires more disclosure about staffing levels and how public nursing home funds are spent, making it easier to taxpayers and nursing home residents to tell when public funds that should go to care are instead lining corporate coffers.

Call your Senators now! Ask them to co-sponsor the Nursing Home Transparency and Improvement Act, S2641.