Alameda County Long-Term Care Watchdog Criticized
The Alameda County division of the California Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program is unresponsive to complaints regarding the quality of care or suspected abuse in facilities in the county, according to some residents and their caretakers. The program has just one staff member to log complaints from the 400 residential and skilled-nursing facilities in the county and just one coordinator, four part-time paid staff and 13 volunteers to address the complaints, Alameda County Social Services Agency spokesperson Sylvia Soublet said.
- "Alameda County Elder Care Watchdogs Unresponsive, Underfunded" (Woodall, Oakland Tribune, 10/4).