If you are considering placing a loved one in a nursing home or skilled nursing facility, you might take a look at this article from this week’s Washington Post. Otherwise, skip it!
According to this article, nursing homes may ask you to sign an “arbitration agreement” along with admission papers. The advice from this article is: don’t sign the agreement. It’s not a condition of admission. “The American Health Care Association doesn’t support requiring people to sign an arbitration agreement as a condition of admission…although practices may vary at individual nursing homes.”
Here’s a link to the full article:
Signing a mandatory arbitration agreement with a nursing home can be troublesome
By Michelle Andrews
Washington Post
Published: September 17, 2012
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