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If Sen. Chuck Grassley has his way, a new oversight bill for nursing homes will be introduced this month — one that reauthorizes the Elder Justice Act and sets up new funding for various programs in the 2010 law, passed as part of the Affordable Care Act.
Elder abuse is a long-standing issue for Grassley, the Republican chairman of the Senate Finance Committee who, with Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden, held a series of hearings related to elder abuse and issues in nursing homes this year.
In his prepared opening remarks to the July 23 hearing on elder justice, he stressed the importance of revisiting some of the programs in the act. And in a recent interview with Skilled Nursing News in his Washington office, the Iowa senator re-emphasized the need to include key provisions for oversight — specifically those he believes have been overlooked in the past