We proposed a certification process that would not require simultaneously kicking patients out of the hospital. It was rejected by cms. We asked for 18 months to ensure patients would be safely transferred and discharged, rejected. We asked twophase transfers to our most honorable patients would be transferred last, rejected. Reporter the second lawsuit is a class action filed on behalf of patients and their families. Among the plaintiffs, deborah bauer. Her son suffered a dramatic brain injury and has been at laguna honda for 20 years. My son feels safe there. I do not want that taken away from him. I dont want it taken away from him or any of the other residents that i see and we went to in the hallways. Reporter medicare has already mandated some transfers of patients out of the facility. Nine people who have been transferred have subsequently died and medicare has pause the process. There is also struggle to find enough Skilled Nursing beds to transfer all 700 laguna honda patients
About 20 states have “drug-induced homicide" laws, which allow prosecutors to press murder or manslaughter charges against anyone who supplies or exposes a person to drugs causing a fatal overdose.
A growing number of parents across the U.S. are being criminally charged with murder or manslaughter after their children die from exposure to fentanyl. Supporters of the ramped-up enforcement say that by now those who use the synthetic opioid know the lethality of the drug and should be treated like drunk drivers who kill people. Critics of the approach say the parents didn’t intend to kill their children but instead made poor choices because of their addictions and are being further punished instead of being offered help. The debate comes as the country battles with how to effectively diminish the use of the highly accessible and extremely deadly drug.
A growing number of parents across the U.S. are being criminally charged with murder or manslaughter after their children die from exposure to fentanyl. Supporters of the ramped-up enforcement say that by now those who use the synthetic opioid know the lethality of the drug and should be treated like drunk drivers who kill people. Critics of the approach say the parents didn’t intend to kill their children but instead made poor choices because of their addictions and are being further punished instead of being offered help. The debate comes as the country battles with how to effectively diminish the use of the highly accessible and extremely deadly drug.
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