Links to Other Advocates and Resources

For other local resources for seniors--in the Ohio counties of Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain and Medina--visit the Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging website at www.psa10a.org.

Other Ohio residents may call the Ohio State Long Term Care Ombudsman at 800/ 282-1206 for a referral to their regional long term care ombudsman program, or visit oarltco.org to learn about the Ohio Association of Regional Long Term Care Ombudsmen--and for links to other long term care resources.

The Ohio Long Term Care Consumer Guide website (ltcohio.org) contains information on nursing homes in Ohio: the results of the family and resident satisfaction surveys, details of the deficiencies cited in the annual surveys of the Department of Health, and related data entered by the facilities.

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services publishes Nursing Home Compare (medicare.gov), which includes summaries of Ohio Department of Health annual and complaint surveys of Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing homes. It also includes resident characteristics, staffing information, and for Ohio and five other states, Quality Measures.

Residents of other states find their state long term care ombudsman at www.ltcombudsman.org/static_pages/ombudsmen.cfm.

To order the book "Nursing Homes: Getting Good Care There" or for other information, call the National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform at 202/332-2275 or visit http://www.nursinghomeaction.com/.

For other information on advocacy for low-income, elderly individuals, visit the National Senior Citizens Law Center website at nsclc.org