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The California Association of Health Facilities (CAHF) is a non-profit professional association founded in 1950 to serve as a statewide organization for long-term care providers. The Association and its members are dedicated to improving the quality of long-term health care in California through educational programs and proactive advocacy with the Legislature and administrative agencies.

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is dedicated to optimizing the health and well-being of the people in California.

John F. Schnelle, Ph.D. is the Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Quality Aging and Professor at the Vanderbilt School of Medicine. He has been the principal investigator on 9 National Institutes of Health clinical trial intervention grants designed to improve care and management in nursing homes and has received awards for his outstanding contributions to behavior therapy. Dr. Schnelle has published extensively in the areas of incontinence management, quality control in institutional settings and quality of life issues in the frail elderly, with over 200 publications.

The California Culture Change Coalition is an action-oriented collaboration representing providers, resident-advocates, state and federal regulators and direct care workers dedicated to starting a “new conversation” about care in nursing homes. We have joined forces to foster culture change on a broader scale than can be achieved through any one of the organizations’ individual efforts.

Makes a technical change to existing law providing that a county adult protective services office and a long?term care ombudsman, when investigating the financial abuse of an elder or dependent adult, is not prohibited from requesting financial information from a financial institution. Amends the Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act. Provides for mandated reporters of suspected financial abuse.

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