A plan to offer additional scrutiny of suspicious deaths at nursing homes and assisted living facilities seemed positioned to finally get a full airing at the Georgia General Assembly this year.
Advocates for the elderly had been fighting for more than a decade to ensure local coroners and medical examiners get notified of deaths that seem to have links to neglect or abuse. The goal is to have another level of independent review on cases that can easily be overlooked.
Each time, the long-term care industry, which gives tens of thousands in campaign contributions to state lawmakers each cycle, was able to beat back the proposals. This time around, House Bill 955 was supposed to be a different story.
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