Consumer Voice and NORC have created an online learning center for all individuals interested in achieving quality long-term care.

Consumer Voice and NORC have created several new training materials on the topic of abuse, neglect, exploitation and misappropriation of property.  The materials are based on the revised nursing home regulations.

A new fact sheet on nursing home discharges is now available from Consumer Voice and NORC.

Urge your member of Congress to request increased funding for the long-term care ombudsman program.

Your actions in early February to ask the Senate to fund the Money Follows the Person (MFP) program (#FundMFP) made a big impact.  Now it is time to go all out and make a big push to pass the EMPOWER Care Act!

The future of the Money Follows the Person program is at risk. Urge your Senators to co-sponsor the bill to improve and extend the program for five years.

Congress has passed and the President has signed a $1.3 trillion spending bill to fund the federal government through September 2018.

Thank you to all the individuals and organizations who signed onto our letter to CMS calling for the agency to ban pre-dispute arbitration clauses in nursing home agreements once and for all.

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved a bill to reauthorize the Older Americans Act!  House-amended S. 192, the Older Americans Act Reauthorization Act of 2015, will now be sent to President Obama to sign.