Our Nursing Home Rights
Upon admission into a nursing home, residents are afforded a special set of rights guaranteed by the federal Nursing Home Reform Law.
Access & Visitation
COVID-19 ALERT! NURSING HOME VISITATION RESTRICTED! Exempted visitors will be granted access on a "case by case basis" after screened for ...
Freedom Of Choice
To choose a personal attending physician, participate in planning care and treatment or changes in care and treatment, be fully informed in advance about care and treatment...
Privacy & Confidentiality
Of personal and medical records, private written and telephone communications, to send and receive (unopened) mail, to participate in resident groups...
Personal Fund Management
A resident has the right to manage his or her financial affairs and the facility may not require residents to deposit their personal funds with the facility.
In The News
Our curated news feed of articles from national media outlets and Families for Better Care press releases.
Nursing Home
Report Cards
Nursing Home Report Card is a Families for Better Care project that analyzes, compares and ranks state’s nursing home quality. Our Report Card’s intent is to advocate for better care for our loved ones. Learn more about how your state ranks.
Learn MoreALERT! The recent announcement by HHS to send #COVID19 rapid testing kits to all 15,400 nursing homes is NOT, we repeat, NOT the solution we were hoping for! They’re shipping antigen tests, not molecular rapid testing. Antigen tests do NOT identify asymptomatic cases! Antigen tests rely on stockpiling of virus proteins latching onto antibodies to show a detectable result. False negatives can be more prevalent with antigen testing. If a nursing home resident or caregiver has a low-grade infection, antigen tests may not detect the #COVID19 virus. Nursing homes need the MOLECULAR point-of-care rapid testing machines that can offer results in real-time, especially for infections that are in an embryonic stage. The FDA says, “antigen tests are more likely to miss an active #COVID19 infection compared to molecular tests.”