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Respiratory Care Weekly, September 13, 2006
A San Francisco judge ordered California health officials to dramatically speed up investigations of nursing home complaints, dismissing their protests that the task was too onerous and that they needed more time, reported The Mercury News of San Jose, CA. State law requires inspectors to investigate complaints of neglect or maltreatment within 10 working days. But in the first half of 2006, the Department of Health Services investigated fewer than half of complaints within that time. The state agency has maintained that it has too few inspectors to investigate allegations by the 10-day deadline, although a recent $20 million budget boost is allowing more staffers to be hired, according to the News
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