- Target:
- Government Officials
- Region:
- United States of America
There is a history across the United States of nursing and retirement home abuse of elderly residents. Mostly due to the lack of background checks conducted and shared nationally. Physical, verbal and criminal abuse (i.e., burglary and identity theft) have been reported at numerous facilities nationally. Some of these include murder and manslaughter.
There must be a system put into place nationally and shared from state to state to control who has intimate access to the segment of our population (which may one day be us or our loved one) who cannot protect themselves or may not even be able to report the abuse.
We, the family, friends, children and spouses of our geriatric community respectfully DEMAND the government to pass a LAW demanding that ALL nursing and retirement homes do a mandatory criminal background check on any employee or volunteer working or frequently having access to nursing and retirement home residents.
This information should be accessible and distributed to every state in the union and there should be stiff legal penalties in place should these facilities not follow the national law.
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The Background Checks for Nursing and Retirement Home Employees petition to Government Officials was written by Michele Fields and is in the category Miscellaneous at GoPetition.