San Diego County Cracks Down on Assisted-Living Facilities
San Diego County has created a new force -- which includes 10 county coordinators, two deputy district attorneys and three district attorney investigators -- to monitor and respond to poor or criminally negligent care at assisted-living facilities. The county has allocated $2.3 million to the effort, which comes in response to reports that uncovered 27 deaths related to abuse or neglect and dozens of cases of medication errors and other deficiencies at assisted-living facilities in recent years.
- "County Boosting Assisted Care Monitoring" (Walker, U-T San Diego, 8/4).